How kind of you to say. I held off on learning programming for so long due to my visceral disgust with C/UNIX and ALGOL syntax. I just knew it was the wrong set of abstractions that have trapped us all in a grey hellscape of mediocrity and wasted potential. When I was a kid I turned turtles into a spirograph in Logo on an Apple II. It ruined me. I didn't know Logo was functional or Lisp-inspired.

When I found functional programming in Erlang I got SO excited. When I found Common Lisp, decades of pent-up frustration melted away and I knew I'd come home. I guess my Unix Hating led to some intuitive thinking over the years and I've been making up for lost time over the past couple of years and mapping what I knew I wanted to what has been there in CL all along.