Every community needs people that are congratulatory as well as those that are critical. Lispers love their language. But they are also self-critical and open-

Every community needs people that are congratulatory as well as those that are critical. Lispers love their language. But they are also self-critical and open-minded. They tend to work hard to see how ideas in other programming languages can be properly integrated into their own. Other programming languages and communities could benefit from such self-criticism.