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1 point by absz 5853 days ago | link | parent

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.)


1 point by almkglor 5853 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 5852 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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