So lots of people are taking up LISP, and abandoning it as soon as they hit the dreaded defmacro? But are lots of people aren’t taking up LISP. There are lot of reasons for not studying old, little-used languages. And it’s not as if programmers are low-openness people who hate fundamentally new paradigms—OO would never have spread if they were. For me, LISP pattern matches to “cult following” rather than “great thing that the sheeple can’t understand”.
So lots of people are taking up LISP, and abandoning it as soon as they hit the dreaded defmacro? But are lots of people aren’t taking up LISP. There are lot of reasons for not studying old, little-used languages. And it’s not as if programmers are low-openness people who hate fundamentally new paradigms—OO would never have spread if they were. For me, LISP pattern matches to “cult following” rather than “great thing that the sheeple can’t understand”.