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there's a common misconception among many hackers that lispers are these arcane wizards who deal in cryptic black magicks.

for the most part i find this mildly derogatory view quite charming.

but after having learned lisp, used guix, emacs, etc., i think it would be closer to the truth that lisp abstracts away much of what is rightly unnecessary about C, python, imperative languages in total.

lisp makes you view the C 'system programmers' of the contemporary ilk as a hoard of locusts with an insatiable appetite for memory. just circling, swarming, gobbling, stripping every branch of useful memory dry.

remember, it's 'evaluation', not 'execution'--and yes we lispers have the humility to say we did not create our language, it is innate to mathematics. it was discovered.