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Comment by Thorondor

7 years ago

Part of the reason is Paul Graham's essay about his experience using Lisp at a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

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twunde  7 years ago

To add further clarification, Paul Graham was one of the founders of YC and built Hacker News in a LISP dialect named Arc (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9270478 for more information).

  • harperlee  7 years ago

    ...and wrote a couple of classical common lisp books. He has obviously contributed a lot to HN’s culture.

    I personally found out about both reddit and HN by means of deeping further into lisp in the internet, beyond his “ANSI Common Lisp” book which I used in university.

eof  7 years ago

That essay sent me down the functional language paradigm. I never did a lot of lisp but have done a lot of Haskell since.

I don’t get to do near as much these days, but the lessons I’ve learned have made me a better developer for sure.

Type safety and pure functions make debugging and refactoring an entirely different beast