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Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

— Eric S. Raymond How to Become a Hacker (2007)

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I publish this blog in part because I think it is my duty to speak taboo and unspeakable truths.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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Barring the mythical portable-LISP-dialect-with-good-OS-bindings that has never existed, Python is about the most reasonable alternative there is for this kind of work.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)

At any sufficient scale, those who do not have automatic memory management in their language are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

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