This Lispofobics really gone too far

First , Jokes about pages of closing parenthesis
Second, Threads why Lisp is not popular and that we all should switch
to python
Now this :(I wonder why he gave it 5 star , probably to sound more
impressive)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590592395/qid=1115200740/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-1151321-2940016?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Excellent intro , for an obscure language , April 29, 2005
Reviewer: Stephen (Lost in Lisp macros) - See all my reviews
I really like this book even if i'm not a Lisp fan.
This book gave me fresh view of lisp that realy helped me.

Few months ago my company got a new wealthy client,
the job was to maintain their in-house software ,
as the application was written in Lisp and i was the
only programmer with Lisp in my CV
(I's behind C/C++,Java,VB, php and before Pascal)
i got the project , promotion "Lead Programmer",
raise , and could hire help .
Sounds great ? Well it was untill i sow the code.
Actually i didn't used Lisp since the college days,
even than my largest one was less than 800 lines long.
Facing the code that i sopose to maintain was a:
"In what the hell is this written in ?"
Even after 8 months, and countless hours working
on the code i still can't answer that.
The whole program is a one big macro , when i
macroexpand it , got a code large enaphe to fill
Paul Grahams' On Lisp , book (around 400 pages)
and remain enaphe for 2 Doctoral thesis.
After unsuccessfull idea to rewrite the code in
C# , our calculation was that 4 men would do it
in something like 5 years , and hiring three Lispers
we decided to rewrite the code strictly from the comments
and documentation (geetting as much idea from original code as we
could).
Thank you lord that it was such well documented and commented.
Now our program is still missing features ,it's buggy ,
it's slower , and thanks god for the brand new Dell boxes that
hide our unoptimization else we would be out of job .

Eight months ago i had a very high opinion of my skills
now i feel like a high School jr writing his first Hello World.
Lisp tested me and i failed .

If it wasn't this recession i would leave this project ,but good job
are hard to find this days especially for one with lack of selfrespect
as myself.

..

I wish you a happy Lisping
Stephen
You could never know how good you are if never done
Lisp before

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