Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by deterministic on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:47PM
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Not my experience. I’ve played around with Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme, Chicken, even wrote my own Lisp in C++. I’ve really wanted to like it, but it never stuck.
Also, the whole cult-like attitude from a number of people in the Lisp community was a big turn-off. All that “if you don’t get Lisp, you’re not smart enough, haven’t got enough experience, or just haven’t tried hard enough” BS gets pretty tiresome. Lisp is really simple. There isn’t much to “get”. Haskell/LEAN was much harder for me to “get” than Lisp. And LEAN absolutely blew my mind. Lisp didn’t.
Also, the whole cult-like attitude from a number of people in the Lisp community was a big turn-off. All that “if you don’t get Lisp, you’re not smart enough, haven’t got enough experience, or just haven’t tried hard enough” BS gets pretty tiresome. Lisp is really simple. There isn’t much to “get”. Haskell/LEAN was much harder for me to “get” than Lisp. And LEAN absolutely blew my mind. Lisp didn’t.