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The habit of disdaining something that recently gained a considerable amount of popularity.

I agree with the article and the author seems like a reasonable and experienced programmer, but the Common Lisp comparisons just felt like hipsterism to me.

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I do write for the same magazine as the moustachioed founder of hipsterdom, and my favorite Lisp is very obscure (Lush), but I fail to see any hipstery things in what I wrote. I'm a redneck and I lift weights. I don't use Lush for the reasons that skinny hipsters brag about being cool before it was cool; I use it because it's good at numerics.

Lush really seems pretty neat, actually your post motivated me quite a lot to take a closer look at it.

Dark corners at present: compiling 64 bit C++ code into it. Otherwise; it's my favorite thing.

Ahhh, I see, thanks for the explanation, makes sense.

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