[bestrapperalive]

"The mysterious force driving human society towards the technological singularity, true and total unification of human with technology, also seems to be shaping all programming languages into Lisp, and all computers into Lisp Machines. Lisp, after all, can do everything, and do it every way; that Lisp is not already the de-facto programming language is just a reflection of the state of the world as a whole—only a very small percentage of the population are excited for the technological singularity, but the singularity is coming no matter how much people complain. One way or another, every programmer is going to end up being a Lisper, because every programming language continues to adopt features and syntax from Lisp, one piece at a time. It is in every programmer's interest to master Lisp now, before the world at large realizes how essential Lisp will become over the next two decades."

The title is right, IMO. This is a difficult way to learn Lisp. I'm feeling the burn already.

[AnimalMuppet]

That burn isn't from Lisp, though. It's from this author's tying Lisp to a somewhat far-out world view - one that doesn't actually relate to Lisp very much.