> As I said, I started from the point of zero experience with Lisp. I had a degree in software engineering, but I don’t feel like it has helped me in any direct

> As I said, I started from the point of zero experience with Lisp. I had a degree in software engineering, but I don’t feel like it has helped me in any direct sense. At most, it exposed me to different kinds and concepts of programming, but I am confident that it’s anything but a prerequisite, as also shown by the story of Protesilaos. A reminder that back in the late 1970s, secretaries at MIT who knew nothing about programming were using Lisp to customize Multics Emacs to their liking and workflow -- and Emacs was far less convenient then than it is now! The weird trick they used was, telling the secretaries they were just customizing their editor, not programming it!