Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.