go write your unit tests

defun defun was the last thing I read about Lisp, then I decided to learn a language that takes itself just a little seriously instead.

I'm not opposed to fun, I just think joy lies firmly on top of the type system. Everything therein and below should just work.

I don't get it.

Haskell really isn't purely functional though

@Oktokolo No one who isn't that exactly that into those specific languages understand. It's as if I made a meme-formatted joke about my aunt and my most recent university project.

@c3r38r170 using this opportunity to post my niche meme that I don't want to hunt me in my profile :)

@c3r38r170 Except Haskell is fairly popular and Lisp was at one point literally the most popular programming language apart from C, so "these specific languages" should be familiar to anyone who learns programming languages without getting paid, and has been doing it for a couple years.

I'm not suggesting everyone should know how to use them, but their general principles should be familiar.

@lorentz I know about them but not that deeply. You probably had to code for some time with them to get the specifics of this joke.
I know languages that mix approaches and those who are very strict. Take Java and Kotlin for example. This image is too specific for no reason.

@c3r38r170 Sorry, I meant the general "you" rather than you personally, "one" would've been better

I guess it is specific. My perspective is skewed because I'm obsessed with declarative programming.

@lorentz Yeah I was answering as part of the general part of non-obsessed with declarative programming people. (?

@lorentz you seem to know Lisp so you probably will not agree but I'd argue that knowledge of Lisp syntax is faaaar from expected from a senior dev. Doesn't matter how huge it was. I'd say there's a lot of languages (Lisp, Fortran, Pascal) that most devs have never ever seen syntax of even if they've got a solid comp Sci education and been for 20 years.
Maybe BASIC is more meme famous in a sense among languages one wouldn't have used but might have seen glimpses of.