Obvious flamebait is obvious, but still: "I will be able to point to various examples where Lisp programmers have written not only 3-5 times faster, but they w

Obvious flamebait is obvious, but still: "I will be able to point to various examples where Lisp programmers have written not only 3-5 times faster, but they wrote things other programmers thought were impossible" -> in all fairness, and sincere curiosity, "citation needed ™" (though it's hard to point to any successful software, as pretty much all of it is crap, whatever I wrote included) "Strong typing is for weak minds" -> hey, here is a function that takes an argument called "participants". Quick, what are the functions that you can call on it ? Assuming it's a collection, what kind ? What are the elements made of ? Is it heterogenous ? Is the field "name" specified for each of them ? Is it always there ? Are there cases where it's a string and others where it's a tuple ? Does it depends on user input ? Has it been sanitized ? Has it been produced by code you have not written ? Or by code you wrote a year ago ? What do you mean, "you don't know ?" Oh, you must be one of those "weak minds" MIT guys like to make fun, of. Welcome to the club ! No big deal, we're still nice. We sometimes get things done, and we get to repeat the same weak/strong arguments every so often whitout anyone ever saying anything that might change each other minds. Kinda like social science and militant politics, but with waaaaay higher pay. Cheers !