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I checked some of her other stuff and she seems great! I just wouldn’t want to argue with her about Lisp I think.

• Jach 1y ago
  If the argument was not born from ignorance I think it'd be fine ;) There's a rich history, decades old, of people claiming Lisp can't do X or is bad for Y, or is only a category and the true meaning of Lisp as a category is just having s-expression syntax. Some Lispers get more touchy when such things come up yet again. Attempts to correct misconceptions do work a little bit but just like bad and false popsci memes (remember when the "you only use 10% of your brain" myth was more popular?) the false memes seem to spread more easily. It takes a long time to overcome them, if ever.