BEATING THE AVERAGE

I agree with the argument that says that learning a programming language in specific won’t get you a job or will make you win a lot of money, but it will make you smarter and will improve your mind and will make you better writer in languages. So, I can say that learning Lisp will make me a better programmer.

I believe it is great to ignore what other people are doing. It is incredible that a company grows ten percent a year, this means to work hard and stay there. It is important to get new features done before its competitors to avoid them taking the advantage. Lisp let us to do so, it let us to write software quickly, and server-based applications magnify the effect of rapid development.

In business a valuable thing is the technical advantage over your competitor and they won´t understand. Programming languages vary in power. People prefer to program in a high-level language, and have a compiler translate it into machine language for you. Also, people have a language for every specific program they want to write or similar programs that they have made with a specific program. But, after certain age, programmers rarely switch languages voluntarily. People tend to consider just good enough whatever language the used to.

Lisp macros are unique, and they are related to parentheses they are not there just because they want. They are not there just to be different. Parentheses are the outward evidence of a fundamental difference between Lisp and other languages.

In conclusion, do not stick into the normal standards, make different things. They can be the difference between you or your company and the competition, don’t be afraid to use new things, they could make you more efficient and would give you more value than others.