I think it's "around" because it's quite productive and sits on a rock-solid runtime with support for an astonishing amount of libraries. Around these parts it

I think it's "around" because it's quite productive and sits on a rock-solid runtime with support for an astonishing amount of libraries. Around these parts it's common to have read and appreciated Paul Graham's old writings about becoming a better software developer through Lisp, and that would be Common Lisp, i.e. very mutable, commonly object oriented.