I'm also very curious for hear from expert lispers. I've tried to find the sweat spot where lisp would fit better than what I already know: shell for glue and f

I'm also very curious for hear from expert lispers. I've tried to find the sweat spot where lisp would fit better than what I already know: shell for glue and file ops, R for data munging and vis, python to not reinvent things, perl/core-utils for one liners. But before I can find the niche, I get turned off by the amount of ceremony -- or maybe just how different the state and edit/evaluate loop is. I'm holding onto some things that make common lisp look exciting and useful (static typing[0], APL DSL[1], speed [2,3,4]) and really want to get familiar with structural editing [5] [0] https://github.com/phantomics/april https://github.com/phantomics/april [1] https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/ https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/ [2] https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-comparing-languages.html https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-... [3] https://github.com/fukamachi/woo/blob/master/benchmark.md https://github.com/fukamachi/woo/blob/master/benchmark.md [4] https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-faster/ https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas... [5] https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el