Advocacy is important for new tech. People are invested in what they know and use. For them to change, you need to be *persuasive*.
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@nihilazo @eli_oat @technomancy @csepp The thing I like about lisps is the ability to build functions around snippets until I've written a whole program. It's interactive and pleasant.
I agree that the advocacy is distracting. The book Let Over Lambda has interesting ideas but it's *so* convinced that lisp is always the best.
I sometimes find it hard to read too. It's easy for different patterns to look visually similar.
Fun Common Lisp advocacy: https://tiborsimko.org/common-lisp-runtime-redefinition.html (very few languages let you continue after Ctrl-C)