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Classic post that always makes me want to deep-dive into lisp. I ended up searching for something lisp-related and finding this: https://news.ycombinator.com/i

• abraxas 4y ago
  I believe long gone are the days when the language choice would constitute a significant competitive edge. It can still hurt as heck if you pick a bad one but I don't think the post here aged all that well.
  • arwhatever 4y ago
    My last team used what I think of as a contemporary “Python paradox” language, only to find that the team refused to say “no” to any technology or pattern, and so they were over -engineering the project far beyond anything I had seen elsewhere. Is but one single data point, but it cost me quite some months to learn (I tried to talk them into simpler solutions for a while and then gave up and bailed).