Quote :

"By induction, the only programmers in a position to see all the differences in power between the various languages are those who understand the most powerful one. (This is probably what Eric Raymond meant about Lisp making you a better programmer.) You can't trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox: they're satisfied with whatever language they happen to use, because it dictates the way they think about programs." The concept has been cited by writers such as Joel Spolsky.[24]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Blub

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I wish I found this last year

[Edited on February 12, 2013 at 1:17 PM. Reason : a]

2/12/2013 1:12:50 PM

Quote :

"It was one of the first big end-user applications to be written in Lisp, which up till then had been used mostly in universities and research labs."

Look at how far Lisp has come since then!

But no really, most of pg's essays are good stuff. You should read hacker news too.

2/12/2013 5:00:39 PM