Uncle Bob is bullish on Lisp. It’s his favorite language and believes it’s the future. Yes, that Uncle Bob. The Agile one. The “craftsmanship” one. The C++ one. And he’s telling us to not mind the parentheses. And that Lisp isn’t slow. And that learning Lisp is eye-opening.
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“I have not come to this conclusion casually, nor even willingly. I was not fan of Lisp. For 40 years I was not a fan of Lisp. I saw the CARs and CDRs and CADDADDRs and thought it was all just academic baloney; interesting but not truly useful.” (https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.html …)
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Complains about CAR/CDR (use FIRST/LAST then...), mentions CADDADDR which doesn’t even exist... and is happy about garbage characters like &, @, ,%, #, .....
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