Morbid Cognitive Dissonance

Joel on Lisp. I post this because it's a discussion about Lisp that some Lispers ought to read, although it's not a discussion that particularly interests me. For whatever it's worth, one of the points that hasn't been brought up in the discussion so far is that, as Graham says in the paper, with web apps users don't have to and shouldn't care what language the app is implemented in as long as it works. That means web app developers can work in whatever they like for whatever reasons and still provide a useful service without having to justify shipping something weird to the desktop OS.

Some of the points made in discussion regarding Lispers being jackasses with persecution complexes has a fair side and an unfair side to it. The fair side is that there are Lisp coders like that. The unfair side of is that it is, of course, a gross generalization. Nothing new here. People who really like something will defend it, and some of those people will become embittered to anything else. As for me, I just want to write in what I like and be left alone.