As this new website is written in Lisp, I thought a first post to praise Lisp would be in order. If you're a Lisper, you know all this already ;-) and if you're not, I hope it inspires you.
Early 2010 I joined the IT team of a small research center in Italy. Our
manager at the time was a smart guy, a programmer himself—Emacs user and
Haskell lover. We started a big project and, although their initial plan was
to develop it in PHP (having already a few PHP devs there), the manager
agreed I can use whatever language I want to bring us faster to the
objective. He'd prefer Haskell, but I don't know it. I was having some 10
years experience with JavaScript, but not on server-side (NodeJS was in early
stages those days), 8 years with Perl and only a few months with Common Lisp.
I picked Lisp and I still congratulate myself for that choice.
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