[tedunangst]

Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.

[jff]

Somebody probably posted a Lisp story early this morning, it got ranked highly, everybody else noticed that and jumped on the karma bandwagon by posting their own Lisp essays or just their favorite bit of 10-year-old Lisp lore :)

Remember, all it takes is one "XYZ sucks" post on the front page to get a front page full of "Why XYZ doesn't suck", "XYZ sucks super hard", "We're using XYZ at my startup", "Successful founders use ZYX, not XYZ", etc.

[5hoom]

But lisp is a pretty interesting XYZ to blather about, you must admit.

I'd rather a million lisp stories than all the non development related human-interest/social-studies stuff that often winds up on the front page ;)

[pupeno]

But it it is clear that XYZ is the way to go, why would anyone even consider discussing it? /s