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> This is the first time I see someone seriously dismiss, and choose, a programming language based solely on its syntax.

You've never read a Lisp thread with non-Lispers, have you? :-) The amount of whining about parentheses is incredible.

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To be fair, as a non-Lisper that knows Lisp, it's all about the libraries and the language-as-a-platform.

If WordPress was written in Lisp, I'm sure many more people would use it. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem, I guess.

I've also seen an incredible amount of judgmentalism applied to Objective-C's message passing syntax. Does it look foreign to a speaker of classical C? Absolutely. But I found that pressing through the initial shock, I've come to realize that it's just another language syntax, and not particularly hard to either understand or type.

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