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What I always wonder is why they want "people that crank out Lisp transpilers in their spare time" (I'm reasonably close enough to that...) to come write CRUD apps in Rails.

My current day job is to write CRUD apps in Rails, but my long-term plan has me back in academia (for a PhD and a research career), where the ability to crank out a Lisp transpiler in one's spare time actually gets used.

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