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3 points by kens 6094 days ago | link | parent

I've interviewed a lot of people who have experience with Lisp, and I ask them if they think learning Lisp is worthwhile. Almost all of them reply with some variant of "Why on earth would you do that?" I've received a couple "Yes, definitely" replies from people who are hard-core Lisp hackers. So empirically it seems that most people who learn Lisp don't find it particularly rewarding.


1 point by absz 6089 days ago | link

I've talked to many fewer people than you, but my impression has been slightly different. Broadly speaking, the engineer-type programmers tend to dislike Lisp, and the computer-science-type programmers tend to like it. (Those two classes cover, in my [albeit limited] experience, two of the principle ways of thinking about programming.)

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1 point by almkglor 6088 days ago | link

LOL. Considering that my boss thinks I'm an engineer (and hired me as such), this really hurts!

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1 point by absz 6088 days ago | link

Eh. It's attitude, not job description :) And anyway, you should probably take that with a relatively enormous grain of salt, as small sample sizes aren't conducive to accurate data.

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