Lisp is absolutely superior and you should absolutely learn it but you'll never get concise examples as to why. Only jokes and anecdotes.
How do you fix a waterlogged smartphone? Put out a bowl of rice, which attracts an Asian guy who will repair it for you.
Languages have pedigrees. If you pretend like your company is enamored with javascript you'll get people who love fedoras and call themselves Ninjas. Big teams, single function libraries, lots of code shipped - move fast and break things. Cats pawing at Macbook keyboards. Mumble rap.
If you pretend you love Haskell you'll attract mathematicians in elbow patches. Great stable code will sporadically appear once every couple of years seemingly at random. Genius solutions to neat problems that have nothing to do with what the company is actually trying to accomplish. Ents. Classical music.
If you pretend to love lisp you'll attract people who read PG essays and will quit to start their own companies. Maybe they'll help you close out some tickets in Jira before they bounce if they can get your Rube Goldberg monstrosity working on their laptop. Honey badgers and hamsters. U2.
If you pretend to love latin you might get elected PM.
If you actually learn a few orthogonal languages to cover the very finite amount of paradigms you'll eventually come to realize they are all crap.
How do you fix a waterlogged smartphone? Put out a bowl of rice, which attracts an Asian guy who will repair it for you.
Languages have pedigrees. If you pretend like your company is enamored with javascript you'll get people who love fedoras and call themselves Ninjas. Big teams, single function libraries, lots of code shipped - move fast and break things. Cats pawing at Macbook keyboards. Mumble rap.
If you pretend you love Haskell you'll attract mathematicians in elbow patches. Great stable code will sporadically appear once every couple of years seemingly at random. Genius solutions to neat problems that have nothing to do with what the company is actually trying to accomplish. Ents. Classical music.
If you pretend to love lisp you'll attract people who read PG essays and will quit to start their own companies. Maybe they'll help you close out some tickets in Jira before they bounce if they can get your Rube Goldberg monstrosity working on their laptop. Honey badgers and hamsters. U2.
If you pretend to love latin you might get elected PM.
If you actually learn a few orthogonal languages to cover the very finite amount of paradigms you'll eventually come to realize they are all crap.
If you want to code, code. Don't talk.
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