💭 My Ancestors Were Writing Lisp

I’ve been hard on Lisp lately. Last time I wrote here, I called it a curse — a language so powerful that everyone who touches it ends up building their own private dialect, until no one can quite understand anyone else. A small Tower of Babel, assembled out of parentheses. I still think that’s true. But I left something out of that post, because it didn’t fit the argument I was making. The same…