And forget about it. Mars schmarz. Lego goddess.

End users? I have been asked to make deliverables in power point format where the target audience was high level management that had to approve credits for the project. Well, I guess we can call them end users but it isn't really funny since they are the people who decides how to spend the cash.

Anyway, i was also asked to keep it as simple as possible; just make it look nice so they approve the credits.

In my experience with Lisp, its absence of syntax is only beneficial for macros, but both writing it and reading it is a pain (comparatively to other languages with more rich syntax). People claim that this is subjective and you get used to it, but I find it hard to believe that human brain can't do better with more and easier to grasp clues when parsing things. Someone should make a study on how easy it is to parse Lisp vs, say, Scala.

In any case, we have deviated from the original point, which is the readability of custom DSLs. I don't see anything special about Lisp that makes them any easier to understand.

He didn't. It's right there - "humanity going extinct would be exceedingly bad for humanity". He's not claiming that it will be bad for nature, or the earth, or ecology in general, he's making a specific claim that it will be bad for humanity. Of course he's correct - that's practically a tautology and may indicate lack of sleep and/or concentration on his part :-)

You do know there's a difference between public content and walled-off content? From this thread it appears that you consider walled-off content to be just as public as actual public content.

"Surprisingly"? Surely you meant "unsurprisingly"?

How do toy soldiers encourage little boys to pursue computer programming?

(Hint: it doesn't, and you know this. You probably also realised by now that your narrative is full of holes.)

You point to an outlier and expect... what, exactly? Surely you're not making the ridiculous claim that all women, hell even most women, are budding Lovelace's or similar?

When I was in school, just after the last ice-age the teaching methods of the time relied heavily on rote memorization (times tables, for example). Thanks to that I can do extremely quick calculations in my head and get approximate answers (good enough, anyway). Hand me a slide rule and I'll do even more complex calculations.

There is nothing wrong with rote memorization as long as you understand it's just a tool to avoid time-wasting look-ups.

Hell I forgot about that study - quite recent too - It's in the CDC site somewhere (I trust you'll find it if you look :-) Basically as a woman your highest risk of domestic violence is *from* SO woman, not SO man. If you're a man your highest risk of domestic violence is *from* SO woman, not SO man.

In short, if you're a female you're safest living with a man; if you're a man you're safest living with a man too. If you're living with a woman your odds of getting seriously hurt and/or raped doubles (yes, literally doubles) over those that result from living with a man.

That's why I qualified it with "only negative consequence is lower credit rating" - Greece gets to keep all their existing stuff if they default.

Trade goes both ways - even if others don't want drachmas (they don't want to sell to Greece) they may still buy goods/services from Greece which is a net win for Greece.