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rbanffy on April 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The myth of the Lisp genius

> Lisp does not make medicore programmers 10x better.

No language will. OTOH, no mediocre programmer will grok Lisp.

Typhon on April 26, 2011 [–]

Depends on what you mean by "grokking Lisp". If it means a full exploitation of all the language's possibility, I agree, but it seems a bit obvious that a mediocre programmer would be unable to do that. If it merely means being able to program in the language, that's not true.

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