How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (2018)
I have heard for decades how Lisp is transformative, how just having learned it, even if you leave, you will never look at things the same way again.  Like having served in the Armed Forces.<p>Every so often I get interested in Lisp, but I always run up against the same conflicts.  I look for something that I can run in Windows that has a reasonable set of libraries and then immediately stumble upon the Crusades.  You know, the religious wars you saw with emacs vs vi, wars that used to be fought over various Linux distros and window managers, that you will now see about different flavors of agile or whatever.  I am quite sure that there are religious wars being fought in the territories of Javascript frameworks that I&#x27;ve never heard of.  These wars so often seem to leave the territories barren, the original objectives cloudy, and the participants scarred.  What <i>was</i> this good for, again?<p>Anyway, every time I encounter these things I end up asking myself if I have the knowledge to pick a side in whatever war and if joining up is going to actually provide a solution to the problems I wanted to solve using programming, decide I am neither fit nor armed, and back slowly out of the room.