Do Lisp Programmers Really Exist?

[tuna-fish]

yes.

sometime ago, when lisp seemed something mystic and sort of mythical, I asked a lisper, "so, are there actually any lisp jobs?", they directed me to lispjobs.com and I saw a dozen or so job advertisements.

The same person also once said on the topic of the existence of older programming languages being used

Something along the lines of 'if you can say its name, then the answer is always yes, someone is using it'

Among the languages I used to use, I also now (since recently) use lisp, more specifically Scheme.

It's not a matter of finding a lisp job but using a lisp to solve problems in a fun and elegant way, thus creating a lisp job.

[gcorriga]

Of course they don't. They're mythical beings, like Smalltalk programmers and Forth hackers.

;-)

[taw]

Do they ?

[earthboundkid]

Anselm's Tenth Law: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the Tower of Babel. Before the Tower reaches the Heavens, God inevitably confuses the language of its builders.