On: Poll: Do you know C?

[derrida]

C is the language I use when I just want to sit down and enjoy "resonating with the computer". Python, Java etc feel like I am "working", or "cheating" as the case may be in Python. With C you are conscious of the memory of the computer and the lovely datastructures you are forming on top of it and the whole elaborate dance. I hear that Lisp programmers get a similar feeling but I am not close to seeing that yet.

[blacksmythe → derrida]

My experience is the exact opposite.

When writing C, I have to spend time thinking about the syntax and memory management.

Although I have spent much less time using Python, when writing Python I am only thinking about the problem domain and algorithms.

[wtandy → derrida]

Yeah, writing Lisp is the most detached I ever feel when I'm coding. I have never been able to get into the Zen of it like so many others do.