"Totally wrong"? I apologize for opening with some black humor that has obviously touched a nerve, but once you delete my hyperbolic opening sentence I'll defen

"Totally wrong"? I apologize for opening with some black humor that has obviously touched a nerve, but once you delete my hyperbolic opening sentence I'll defend the rest of the sentences. I guess I didn't realize that I needed to explictly call out the existence of friendly, helpful, newb-friendly Lisp teachers on Paul Graham's Hacker News as implemented in Arc -- it is easy to forget that not everybody is steeped in the local culture -- but let me now be more explicit: There are plenty of people who are happy to help teach newbs all about higher-order programming by helping them implement their very own toy version of Lisp, and by taking joy in the results. Thank god for those people.