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[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 11:07:19 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>> I'm a fan of lisp(Clojure being my favorite. Too bad it takes 
>> about a century just to load the runtime...), and yet I find 
>> it quite ironic that Paul Graham claims lisp to be the most 
>> powerful language right after claiming that programmers can't 
>> understand - and therefore disregard - the power of languages 
>> more powerful than the ones they use...
>
> This is not ironic, because I did neglect the power of Lisp, 
> because not quite understand it fully :) The power of Lisp - 
> his worst enemy. Strange Lisp syntax allows you to write 
> powerful macros, which is unique in other languages, but many 
> programmers do not understand Lisp syntax (and therefore may 
> find it funny).

This IS ironic, because Paul Graham claims lisp to be the most 
powerful, but if he have ever encounter a more powerful language 
he couldn't accept it is more powerful than lisp due to the very 
same "Blub Paradox" he describes himself.