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@screwtape @hayley This thread has put “cachet invalidation” in my mind and it ain’t leaving

This line of reasoning rhymes with a visual “sociopath test” I saw many years ago which presented at least one old-woman/rabbit two-faces/vase optical illusions and purported that sociopaths are able to see both because they are not bound to a single interpretation of reality

If C and its classics are in Latin, then Lisp and its classics are in Chinese: a radically different mode of expressing ideas in spoken and written words. To a mind trained only on Virgil and Cicero, so to speak, iteration and recursion are worlds apart, but to one who has read The Water Margin and Journey to the West (really the Little Schemer) they are simply aminor differences in phrasing

Which is a long winded way of agreeing that to understand Lisp you have to be at least moderately insane (haha yes)