"My first programming language, at age 9, was a Lisp dialect."
Pah, that's nothing. My first programming course in high school was in Prolog. Somehow one of the teachers convinced us that those would be afternoons well-spent. It did something to my brain, but I am still a bit confounded after some 35 years.
Give my Python any day. For those 99% of us who are not professional coders, it does a great job of replacing Excel, Labview, or Matlab with something that works better and doesn't lock you out when you fail to pay your corporation taxes. It's a Swiss army knife -- good at everything without pretending to be the best tool for any particular job.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
