Mama Don't Let Your Baby Grow Up To Be a Cowboy^W Lisper
Forget about it, cowboys are fine. Let them grow up to be cowboys, I don't care. But Lispers... nah. Ok, no, there isn't anything wrong about Lisp, or about using Lisp, or about people that use Lisp.
There is, however, something wrong about being a Lisper, the kind of person that takes advantage of any moment to look down on any code and say "oh, this in Lisp would be cleaner/easier/shorter/faster/trivial/whatever".
And I must confess I have become that person, but with Python instead of Lisp. So I will be doing some non-python coding projects this year. Because closeness means bad perspective, and because I don't want to be that person.
So, C++ here I come (back). I see you've changed. So have I. Let's give us a chance.