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Not Lisp, no. COBOL was like picking your nose with boxing gloves on (h/t Michael Pavlinch). It was appallingly clumsy to use. Lisp was like programming directly in the compiler's abstract syntax tree, with both the plusses and the minuses of that. It was almost the opposite extreme from COBOL.

Or to put it a different way: I don't program in Lisp because that language isn't a good fit for how my brain works and the kind of problems I work on. I don't program in COBOL because I don't like reading things that take that long to come to the point.




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