Libraries are important but code has to be easy to read. You have to be able to easily read the example code for the library you want to use or to read other's code and learn from it. That's what scared me away from Perl and really why I still mainly use Python over Lisp. But each person finds different things easy or hard to comprehend. It mainly depends on your background and what kind of patterns the brain becomes accustomed to.
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Libraries are important but code has to be easy to read. You have to be able to easily read the example code for the library you want to use or to read other's code and learn from it. That's what scared me away from Perl and really why I still mainly use Python over Lisp. But each person finds different things easy or hard to comprehend. It mainly depends on your background and what kind of patterns the brain becomes accustomed to.