This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while now: one anecdotally
comparing programming languages in the Lisp family. I consider myself to be a
Lisp hacker. Perhaps that much was obvious from the letter ? adorning my
website’s header, a reference to the ?-calculus which inspired John McCarthy to
design the first LISP [1]. Yet, “Lisp hacker” likely means little unless you,
too, consider yourself to be a Lisp hacker. Calling yourself one seems carry
some level of unstated mean…