[dang]

> You are the type of person I was hoping not to encounter!

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. I'm sure you can express your thoughts about programming languages without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[too_late]

I'm sure you can mind my own business for me, maybe I should even let you write my next comment?

Would you like to see my papers?

[dang]

Let me try this again. There are rules here, and we ban accounts that break them. Please read them, and post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To anticipate the objection, no, this hasn't a fig to do with political correctness. It's about trying to preserve HN as a place where people want to come for substantive discussion. I'm sure many of us agree with your views on Lisp; that doesn't mean you get to be an arsonist.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10432280 and marked it off-topic.