I think I had the inverse experience. I started with Lisp because I was customizing and extending Emacs. As I self-taught programming from that point forward, m

I think I had the inverse experience. I started with Lisp because I was customizing and extending Emacs. As I self-taught programming from that point forward, most other languages have sooner or later frustrated me with inexplicable inconsistencies with the syntax and data model. Lisp, Tcl, and Prolog all clicked into place quickly and easily, and for everything else, I'm constantly referring to a guide to the syntax. Not that big a deal, but feels internally like at best sort of a head-scratcher. None of this has anything to do with academic computer science. I think I'm just unusually bad at memorizing syntax.