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> "Lisp is too hard to learn" is a lie; if middle schoolers can learn it, so can more seasoned programmers.

Please, some famous, authoritative figure, say this out loud. I'm running out of ideas to convince people of this.

good luck talking "seasoned programmers" into or out of anything. that's the real problem.

Lisp, like Reverse Polish Notation, is definitively not too hard to learn.

But, like Reverse Polish Notation, I don’t want to use it.