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this makes no sense. on a purely personal, self-development level, you're talking yourself out of opportunities for no gain. there's nothing magical about lis
by andrewcooke 14y ago
this makes no sense. on a purely personal, self-development level, you're talking yourself out of opportunities for no gain.
there's nothing magical about lisp compared to other languages. to read it you don't need a cs degree and you don't need vast levels of intelligence - you just need practice. after a while it becomes quite clear.
you're free to think whatever you want, of course, but this kind of negative attitude - "it's for the smart people, not me" - just means that you lose out.
lisp itself is not that far from a language like python (or, i guess, in the context of this thread, ruby) once you get used to it. it's really not rocket science. all you're doing here is harming yourself.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoNo, I don't reject it. I'm simply making the point that, still, some people (the majority of people) are not up to Lisp. Most folks never read the manual, just hop on board and start coding. So, thus, the (Very) slow acceptance of Lisp.