Christine Lemmer-Webber on Nostr: There was once a post I saw on Hacker News that said learning Lisp and Haskell was a ...
There was once a post I saw on Hacker News that said learning Lisp and Haskell was a bad career move. Not because you couldn't use other tools, you could use them with relative ease. But the author said learning them left them bitter when using anything else, because they were forever bitter that they weren't writing Lisp or Haskell.
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