How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)

Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by mattmanser on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:37AM (#16585019)

Which promptly got rewritten after pg left.

EDIT: From the years being here, and having played with LISP myself, it's a language that appeals to a certain type of programmer, who claim to find it very productive compared to other languages.

And everyone else hates it.

So you pick a LISP language you're severely limiting your hire pool.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by flavio81 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:11PM (#16586937)

>So you pick a LISP language you're severely limiting your hire pool.

I'd rather have 5 very good Lisp programmers than 50 code monkeys.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by mbrodersen on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:45PM (#16598461)

I'd rather have 5 very good programmers (using ANY language) than 50 code monkeys (using ANY language). The problem with the Lisp programmers is that they very likely would not be able to work as a team.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by lispm on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:34AM (#16599182)

I think this claim has no base. I've worked with Lisp programmers and there was no special problem doing so.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by vzcx on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:24PM (#16588877)

I might even prefer 5 average lisp programmers to 50 code monkeys.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by kamaal on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @12:37PM (#16585978)

The whole point of picking Lisp as a language for many people is to have a hiring pool of small but good programmers.

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