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Don't learn a Lisp. For one, you'll end up in endless arguments whether your Lisp is a proper Lisp, and two, everything else will look ludicrously constraining

• yladiz 4y ago
  Lisp-1s are bastard children of the true Lisp-2s /s
• fud101 4y ago
  this is good advice. its a trap. you live in a world where lisp isn't going to be accepted, for better or worse, lisp isn't going to happen.
  • sjamaan 4y ago
    FWIW, I work fulltime on a Clojure codebase. There are other companies who also use it (for a more well-known example Metabase). Somehow Clojure is a business-friendly Lisp, probably because of the JVM and all the enterprisey stuff that's available for it.
    • petre 4y ago
      Yup, the JVM is the number one reason why I avoid it like the plague. Which is too bad because the language is super slick, I like it better than Racket and the other schemes.
  • capableweb 4y ago
    Have you ever worked/tried to work with a lisp professionally? I don't think what you're saying is true, at least today. I've worked with many Clojure companies for the last years, for them lisp has already happen and is still happening. Main drawback of using a lisp for professional development is that it's really hard to go back to anything else afterwards. "Why use Assembly if you have C?" (unless you have a really good use case for it, of course), that's a bit the feeling you get.