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johnwalker··on The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers
IMO, the island archetype is probably the most productive. At least in my experience, IM/Outlook/Thunderbird really kills what I can get done. And the corporate emails...
johnwalker··on Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006)
> And it eschews static type annotations and strong type modeling

I don't know that this is true. core.typed is really solid.

> Clojure's community came pre-populated with highly conservative programmers from the pure-functional world"

What does he have against Haskell? ;) Haskell is ahead of its time. I agree with Ikrubner here, that his definition of conservative is quite desirable. Additionally, people with experience in Ruby/Javascript/CL/Python make up the majority of the community.

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