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People saying that Lisp is as easy to read since you get used to it is like people saying that salad is as tasty as cake since you get used to it. Sure someone eating cake for the first time after having only eaten non sugary stuff for a long time will find it a bit jarring, but anyone eating both will find cake so much tastier, which is why people overeat cake so much.

Yet many people will still adamantly say that they find salad tastier. And still go on and eat cake and get fat. They are just lying to themselves, I'm not sure why. Lispers are the same way, its just a reality distortion field.



Why say lispers are "reality destorted"? Maybe they have learned something you have yet to understand?

Have you ever programmed a decently sized lisp program using an editor that allowed you to work at the AST level?

Until then, there's just a large probability, regardless of how tasty cake is, that your displaying classic ignorance.




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