I feel this way about Common Lisp hackers too. What they have going on is very impressive wizardry. I want that. But whenever I try, it just does not mesh with

I feel this way about Common Lisp hackers too. What they have going on is very impressive wizardry. I want that. But whenever I try, it just does not mesh with my brain and I end up going back to Haskell and its compile-fix-compile-run loop instead.