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In my experience this happens because people tend to react with skepticism when you tell them you used Lisp for something. You can't just tell someone about a n
by davexunit 3y ago
In my experience this happens because people tend to react with skepticism when you tell them you used Lisp for something. You can't just tell someone about a neat thing you made without a high probability of being asked to justify why you didn't just use Javascript. So, Lisp people tend to develop some stock answer when they're inevitably asked about it.
- p_l 3y agoBack in 2008... In a world where Facebook was eating social media in PHP, Google was famous regarding its python use, Ruby on Rails was the startup darling (and that was before byte compilation!)... Just mentioning you had a project in Lisp would get you questions like "isn't it interpreted and slow?" - fortunately good business clients rarely care about language something is written in...