The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)
I quite enjoyed this article, but I reckon they&#x27;re talking about ADHD rather than &quot;bipolar&quot; mind. Seen under that lens, I resonate with his caricature.<p>Focus is a precious, rare resource outside my control. Mainstream languages, made for collaboration in big teams rather than maximum personal freedom, soon impose restrictions that kill hyperfocus. The &quot;unused variable is an error&quot; is the most egregious of them that I hate with a passion. The separation between compilation and running is another that seemingly inescapable today. With languages like Lisp, I can code at the speed of thought from prototype to production.<p>These days tech is advanced by FAANGs, so no one cares about removing the safeties from our languages; this is the reason the focus-challenged among us still go back to Lisp and other lost languages (Forth, Smalltalk, Self) that have disappeared from the mainstream.<p>Rust, C++, Go, Python, etc. are good, but they&#x27;re not made for us.