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I must agree. "God's Own Programming Language" (not meant as satire) is certainly indicative of the psychological phenomenon of a superiority complex in the Lisp community.



Yeah, even MIT eventually gave up on using Scheme as a first programming language.

The Lisp community may have the worst ratio of self-regard to actual accomplishments in our entire industry. Not one of the great companies is built on Lisp. I don't think it's even a second-tier language at the FAANGs.




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