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Am I a bad person for using Common Lisp for a short time (a few years) and then giving up on it completely?

• deleted 13y ago
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• mullr 13y ago
  It can take a few tries before things start to click. It also helps quite a lot to be using a modern variant (Clojure, probably Racket)
  • stesch 13y ago
    I tried getting back into Lisp a few months ago. With "Realm of Racket". I was bored 1/4 of the book. And Clojure isn't for me. I'm no JVM user.
• wglb 13y ago
  No this does not make you a bad person. I took the better part of a year to feel quite comfortable with Lisp. A few years later, I am still learning things. It does take you in a different direction than all of the most popular languages. Personally, it has been worth the effort.
  • stesch 13y ago
    In 2004 I was comfortable enough to release some open source code in Common Lisp. Around 2008 I stopped using it.
  • flagnog 13y ago
    It basically spoiled programming in every other work language for me. Sometimes enlightenment brings pain.