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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by vijaybritto on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:02AM (#16584781)
You seem to be experienced and ignorant at the same time
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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by contingencies on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:08AM (#16584816)
You can accurately attribute that quote to any external culture, re: another culture.

Hunter-gatherers on capitalist democracy, Capitalist democracy on hunter-gatherers, China on India, India on China, US on India, India on Iran, Iran on Israel...

You get the picture.

Perhaps what it really means is "communications failure: exception thrown in cultural assumptions".

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