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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (marktarver.com)
1 point by Chris2048 on Jan 9, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is a rather broad over-generalization that tries to simplify a complex history into a pop psychology explanation. There’s no simple set of reasons that Lisp doesn’t hold a prominent position in the current software topography, and it’s doubtful that Lisp programmers’ psychodynamics have very much to do with it.


See also: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html (HN referrer directs somewhere else, so paste URL directly into address bar)




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