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I've been programming for 10+ years, tried many different languages and just don't get the appeal of Lisp. Swift for example is simply more productive and fun to use in most use cases. Same with Haskell.

I don't believe PG's claim that Lisp made a significant difference in productivity for them.

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I also don't believe PG's claim. I know Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure well enough to be able to say that. Also, lots of people/companies made fortunes not using Lisp. So PG's claim proves nothing.

How well do you know lisp?

Hard to tell, not an expert, not a beginner. Enough to conclude that other languages are more productive for me.

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