I have been coding for fun for 26 years and played around with most popular languages. Common lisp has by far the worst community I have experienced. There is a

I have been coding for fun for 26 years and played around with most popular languages. Common lisp has by far the worst community I have experienced. There is a minority of people that elitist , rude even hostile to anyone that is new to the language. I never gave up a language because of the community but CL community really was very hard to tolerate. Elitism and snobbery is far from uncommon in the coding world unfortunately. I think as a language it deserve the reasonable praise it gets and certainly a beautifully designed language, powerful and yet flexible. I enjoyed very much coding in it and with the help of lispers I was introduced to a language / environment I fallen in love with Smalltalk , Squeak and now Pharo.