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Bruce Lee has that quote: “ I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

If Lisp’s “one kick” is the cons list, then jj’s is the commit: by using them for everything (they replace, at least, the git stash, index, and working copy) you actually get really fluent in manipulating them and they become more powerful than special-cased tools.



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