His story is almost sad - but in a good way I suppose. I'm going back through my undergrad CS classes and picking up scheme and lisp again, and I'm really enjo

His story is almost sad - but in a good way I suppose. I'm going back through my undergrad CS classes and picking up scheme and lisp again, and I'm really enjoying it this time through. I feel retroactively angry at the linguistic kludges I had to work around in other programming languages before. That being said, there's always room for diversity. Knowing different languages will either reinforce your opinion of the superiority of your preferred programming paradigm, or it will shed light on a new way that you can hope to incorporate into future development. Either way, you end up the better for it. "The state of C++ was so horrific back then that they were forced to go back to Lisp because they just couldn't get things to run in C++ even though they tried very very hard." But I'm sure they were much richer for the experience, with several new connections in their brains about how to approach problems with a different set of limitations.