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date: 2013/01/08 08:41:28
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title: Mama Don't Let Your Baby Grow Up To Be a Cowboy^W Lisper
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Forget about it, cowboys are fine. Let them grow up to be cowboys, I don't care.
But Lispers... nah. Ok, no, there isn't anything wrong about Lisp, or about using
Lisp, or about people that use Lisp. 

There is, however, something wrong about being a Lisper, the kind of person that
takes advantage of any moment to look down on any code and say "oh, this in Lisp
would be cleaner/easier/shorter/faster/trivial/whatever".

And I must confess I have become that person, but with Python instead of Lisp. So
I will be doing some non-python coding projects this year. Because closeness
means bad perspective, and because I don't want to be that person.

So, C++ here I come (back). I see you've changed. So have I. Let's give us a chance.