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Agreed. I took a year (long ago) to learn lisp just to be exposed to a different way. And it has paid dividends in terms of providing alternate ways of thinking about code in other languages.

That said, I'd never want to use lisp in a real production project. Same for FP. Get exposed to these things, take the learnings and bring them into KISS boring production code that is fast and maintainable.




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