Overheard last night at XtC:
“I work for Dresdner.”
“Ah, they used to be a cool international investment bank.”
“What are we now then?”
“An international investment bank.”
“Why aren’t we cool any more?”
“Because you lost JP.”
I guess I really ought to learn Lisp
I was having a discussion last night about the value of learning new programming languages. I said I still felt I ought to learn Lisp, even if I was never likely to use it in anger, because it would hopefully give me a new way of thinking about problems which would be transferrable to other languages (especially ones like Ruby). Alkesh (come on, get a blog so I can link to it!) felt that Lisp was a dead language, and would be no more useful than learning Fortran or COBOL.
Then this morning I tried the Which Programming Lanuguage Are You? (via Steve Freeman).
Fate?