From: Jonathon McKitrick
Subject: Why I *did* switch to Lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <1137787515.285288.249320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
It's said that Cortez, IIRC, burned his ships when reaching the new
world to give his men incentive.  That's what it took for me, too.  I
was laid off, and decided I simply couldn't go back to another
Win32/VC++ job.  And despite being a vi-head, I figured I'd try emacs
again, this time with SLIME.  Now that I have, I'll never go back to
vi.

First, I want to thank everyone here at c.l.l. for their patience in
answering my questions.

Second, I want to thank Python for (a) giving me something I could use
at work that had some of the features of Lisp and (b) finally driving
me back to the original  :-)

Third, McCarthy, for starting it all.

Jonathon