A little over a year ago, mefite Roger Dodger made a nice post to Metafilter about some free LISP resources.

I’m actually goofily fond of the LISP family, but I have a hard time walking away from a good straight line. Another user commented, I zinged back, and that was that.

Until Monday, when Joceyln Paine over at Dr. Dobb’s Code Talk recapped the exchange:

— [jeffamaphone] Learning LISP is an interesting exercise in logic, but a waste of time if you want to write programs that are actually useful. I’ll take LISP over Prolog though.
— [cortex] Faint praise. I could say the same for scabies.

If you want to see that in context, here’s jeffamaphone’s full original comment, my response, and me going on to say nice things about LISP.

As someone form the mefisphere noted, Dr. Dobbs and Metafilter are kind of two different social/functional universes, so it’s kind of neat to see them overlap, and neater still for me when it’s my snark getting quoted.