[smcl]

So I understand that in some contexts it's important to specify that, for example, you've written a library for "Common Lisp" rather than just "Lisp". Here the original commenter is clearly just happy they can use a lisp for this task, and they got a snippy and slightly pedantic response that likely thousands of HNers are now reading.

So the top-level comment made me think "cool I should return to Lisp and hack something fun together" and the reply made me think "ah lispers can be tribal and petty towards newbies". It's fair enough if that's true - I don't know what value me individually doodling a few things can bring to a community overall.

[lispm]

There are literally zillions of programming language for that task.

Give the actual language, here used, some credit, instead of trying to needlessly advertize Lisp.