This is why any CS curriculum worth its salt should provide a summary of / introduction to Lisp and Smalltalk at or very near the start, so that in the second and third year of study or shortly after graduation, any encounters with so-called "voodoo" will elicit an "ah yes, sounds like CLOS MOP" response or something similar, rather than wide-eyed excitement leading to uninformed evangelism.
(Mine didn't have it, and I've been ruing it, and compensating for it, ever since.)
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The reason why you have to reinvent lisp when you go deep enough is that if you are not, it is getting too hard and too confusing.
This is why any CS curriculum worth its salt should provide a summary of / introduction to Lisp and Smalltalk at or very near the start, so that in the second and third year of study or shortly after graduation, any encounters with so-called "voodoo" will elicit an "ah yes, sounds like CLOS MOP" response or something similar, rather than wide-eyed excitement leading to uninformed evangelism.
(Mine didn't have it, and I've been ruing it, and compensating for it, ever since.)