I don't like lisp, not code in lisp; not even a line.. and I have read TONS of lisp stuff. Why? The #1 reason: The lisp people have a lot of cool things to te

I don't like lisp, not code in lisp; not even a line.. and I have read TONS of lisp stuff. Why? The #1 reason: The lisp people have a lot of cool things to teach. One of the most obvious examples: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ So, you can learn enough of Lisp or APL or oCalm or Haskell to tag along with somebody smart on the field (that use certain lang, maybe for very good reasons, maybe is just what he like) and understand stuff. Most of the real gems are kind of easy to learn with the most basic understanding of a language. --- A lot of times, is THAT kind of people that have the better insights of why certain lang matter. Continue with the example of Rich Hickey: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386321 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386321 --- You can translate a lot of ideas from a lang to other, as the most basic and simply benefits. Is just the case that certain langs fit the minds/goals/niches better, so is there where to look for better answers...