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I once worked at an organization where we programmed in Common Lisp. Several other programmers in other parts of the outfit didn't want to join our team because
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
I once worked at an organization where we programmed in Common Lisp. Several other programmers in other parts of the outfit didn't want to join our team because they thought having Lisp on their resumes would hurt their future job prospects.
My response was if you really think about life that way, you wouldn't fit our team, and if those are the kind of employers you'd consider working for, you really wouldn't fit our team.
- nmeofthestate 7y agoI wonder what made them think being a lisp programmer would be off-putting to employers.
- pmiller2 7y agoMaybe fear of getting pigeonholed as a head in the clouds academic type who does little but proclaim the superiority of LISP and chide people for not understanding macros? Or some other LISP-based stereotype (that’s for AI, right? LISP is hard to read, I don’t know why you deal with that BS, etc.)
- DannyB2 7y agoSpeech therapists cons tand dotted pears and parenthesis.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoI expect it was because they considered Lisp "old" and that employers might also.
- kazinator 7y agoI would say, the main problem was that those people were overly concerned with what they will be stuffing into their resume next. Anyway, in a resume, you can write about what was accomplished: "designed, implemented, maintained and documented such and such a system, of such and such size and scope, deployed in such a such are role in such and such customer sites."