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by kabdib 1918 days ago
My guess is that LISP programmers are largely a self-selected group of pretty decent hackers. I'm basing this on some exposure to Lisp Machines in the 1980s, and some Common LISP stuff in the 90s. Generally adults. LISP is my favorite language I'll never ship a product in (well, okay, after SmallTalk :-) ).

The Gang-of-Four-driven stuff I saw in C++ and Visual Basic (late 90s and early 00s) still gives me the shivers. Like, "Hey, factories are cool, let's make a bunch of them for no reason because we might need the flexibility someday." Sigh.