The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

This article probably explains very well why i like the idea of Clojure so much.

Like a lisp language with all the qualities of a lisp but avoiding the shortcomings by being able to grab finished libraries from the best of "tweezers and glue" language : Java

I like this article (though maybe not enough to read it for the sixth time it's been posted here). As far as psychological labels go, "autistic" might have been a better one than "bipolar" for what Tarver is writing about.

Ron Garret once made the related point that Lisp culture never evolved in a social direction because a single isolated guy could get so much done on his own. I find it interesting how a thing's weaknesses can be bound up with its strengths. The thing I like least about the Lisp world (having come to it late and from a very different perspective) is this anti-collaborative tendency.

Two failed classes in HS, two failed classes in college and an average gpa under 2.5, while working as a C++ consultant and coding Clojure/Ruby/ELisp in free time. That's probably me.

I remember this :-)

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