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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by RivieraKid on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:54PM (#16586791)
I've been programming for 10+ years, tried many different languages and just don't get the appeal of Lisp. Swift for example is simply more productive and fun to use in most use cases. Same with Haskell.

I don't believe PG's claim that Lisp made a significant difference in productivity for them.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by mbrodersen on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:49PM (#16598477)
I also don't believe PG's claim. I know Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure well enough to be able to say that. Also, lots of people/companies made fortunes not using Lisp. So PG's claim proves nothing.
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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by vzcx on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:22PM (#16588865)
How well do you know lisp?
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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by RivieraKid on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:51AM (#16592353)
Hard to tell, not an expert, not a beginner. Enough to conclude that other languages are more productive for me.
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