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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by vzcx on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:18PM (#16588825)
That depends heavily on what your day to day problems are.

If you work in a complex or rapidly evolving domain, I cannot think of a better choice than Lisp. If you are doing a lot of text processing or writing CRUD apps, then you will probably not get much benefit.

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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by flavio81 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:43PM (#16589015)
>If you work in a complex or rapidly evolving domain,

or if you are creating a big system that needs to work reliably and be able to be corrected (patched) while it's operating

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