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Lisp kills productivity!

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-06 2:53

Lisp goes against the human thought process. You must think in reverse to successfully write and read Lisp code!

Consider the famous REPL:
(loop (print (eval (read))))

People will typically think Loop-Print-Eval-Read, which is obviously wrong. They want to read left-to-right, not recursively. Thus, it's a write-only language. I'm an employer and if one of my applicants told me they were a Lisp programmer, I'd personally throw them out the door.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-09 5:05

"Human thought process", whatever that is, isn't left-to-right. There are many writing systems that work from right to left, in fact it was the primary way of writing before the advent of ink, as most people are right handed and they didn't use their off hands for chiseling etc. - with ink if you wrote the other way you'd smear what you wrote.

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