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A comment on The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp.

Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by allknowingfrog on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:09PM (#41710307)
A PG article about "doing what you love" was recently shared and discussed on HN [1], and I think a lot of the same logic applies. The nature of a job is that someone is paying you to do what they want you to do. If we're talking about what makes you happy in your free time, then sure, learn any obscure language that appeals to you. If you find something cool that you can do in CL and nowhere else, that's an amazing opportunity. If you just happen to think that life is too short to use a practical, established language, then I don't want career advice from you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687176

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Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by ds9soft on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:16PM (#41710447)
I didn't give any career advice at all. Why did you think this was it? My career advice would be to keep developing in whatever established and practical language you are using and get paid to use if that's what you want.
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Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by allknowingfrog on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @12:40PM (#41710817)
Ah, then I accept your advice. I happen to like programming, but I also view it as a practical skill and a means to an end. That's the lens through which I was viewing your post. If your central point was that you personally enjoy Lisp, then I don't have an opinion one way or the other.
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Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp by ds9soft on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:12PM (#41711253)
I also view it a as practical skill. I'm paid to write in a practical language which is mutating into a monster I no longer consider fun to write in.

But as I started a new project which eventually could be a business, then I can use whatever language I want, as long as it's practical for my use case. Why would I use any other language than one that I already know and like? It would make no sense. If you were to start your project, you would probably pick a language you enjoy using, rather than the one you are paid to use, unless it happens to be the same.

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