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Yes, I realized a few years ago that humans are not yet ready for computers. They're great inventions, capable of a few fantastic things, but getting them to do much of anything requires something alien to most humans' thinking, and as a result has a lot of unintended consequences. That said -- try Lisp. I find it greatly expands the class of problems solvable by a single programmer. And to the extent possible, rely less on SaaS and trendy frameworks, and more on simple libraries or components you build yourself.


Isn't that widely regarded as being the reason Lisp never caught on. Everyone writes their own standard library so nobody can understand each others' code.


Just because it's widely regarded as such doesn't make it true. I find Ruby on Rails code to be more impenetrable than Lisp, and no one can say Rails didn't catch on.




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