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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Nov 2014

    People love Lisp for much the same reason they love Lego.

    12:54 PM - 9 Nov 2014
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      2. Dragisa Zunic‏ @superkrug 9 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg What is Y combinator (fixed point generator) in Lego... ?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Nov 2014
        Replying to @superkrug

        @superkrug I don't think the metaphor will stretch that far. Would be amazing if it did though.

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      1. Jim Gray‏ @grayj_ 9 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @collinmathilde I'm pretty sure Lisp isn't as easy to use, but the analogy holds up in terms of what happens if you step on it...

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      1. Steven Klaiber Noble‏ @snoble 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg I feel at some point every programming language tried to sell itself as being like lego http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/05.html … /cc @spolsky

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      1. Charles Naut‏ @cnaut 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg And you shouldn't build production applications in Lisp for the same reason you shouldn't build commercial buildings in Lego?

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      1. Eric Goebelbecker‏ @egoebelbecker 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg There’s a funny Lisp movie with Batman and Wonder Woman?

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      1. Kayia‏ @Brodlist 10 Nov 2014
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        I think @paulg just admitted Lisp is a toy language.

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      1. Tau-Mu Yi‏ @socalsysbio 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg yeah but kids these days like the specialized custom-built lego

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      1. Donny  ⛅ Velazquez‏ @Donny_V 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg my first project as a developer was doing lisp scripts for Autocad

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      1. Dave Venable‏ @davevenable 9 Nov 2014
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        I've gotta take the time to learn Lisp someday. “@paulg: People love Lisp for much the same reason they love Lego.”

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      1. Rangel Spasov‏ @raspasov 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg I thought a similar thing about Lego/Lisp a few months back but you beat me to Twitter about it! :)

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      1. Scott McKay‏ @swmckay 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg @colinstrickland What, when you step on a stray parenthesis, it hurts like hell? ;-)

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      1. PatrickJS [tipe.io]  ⌨️ 🐈‏ @gdi2290 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Minecraft is the new Legos

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      1. John Boguta‏ @boguta 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg and i love your two wonderful Lisp books.

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      1. Stephen Bové‏ @StephenBove 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Both have four letters & begin with "L"? ;-)

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      1. rpledge‏ @rpledge 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg because it really hurts if you step on a piece?

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      1. Joe Zadeh‏Verified account @joebot 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg agree... You can put really simple blocks together to express complicated ideas

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      1. Ruben Berenguel, PhD‏ @berenguel 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Obviously because they start with L

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      1. Amit Bhatiani‏ @bhatiani 9 Nov 2014
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        @paulg Think the building block charm is similar. As you get into it though, how native recursion and first class objects feel is it.

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