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[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

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).