<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>troad</author><text>This is a really cool story!&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a slight segue, but I recently tried to learn CL for the first time and I was genuinely surprised by all the decades of accumulated cruft (mainly masses of semi-redundant and soft-depreciated standard library functions, with bizarre names). The way people talk about Lisp, I&amp;#x27;d expected something more elegant. I suppose I should try something like Scheme or Racket, but it&amp;#x27;s hard to find an introduction to those that isn&amp;#x27;t bone dry. (Recommendations welcome!)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also heard people say reading Lisp functions, inside out, ensconced (heya) in their parentheses, is somehow more comprehensible than sequential C style, but this state of enlightenment thus far eludes me. I can only speak for myself, but I definitely reason about code outside in rather than inside out.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The world&apos;s loudest Lisp program to the rescue</title><url>https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Great writeup! I am a long time user and fan of Common Lisp, and this is one of the more interesting use cases I have seen!</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The world&apos;s loudest Lisp program to the rescue</title><url>https://blog.funcall.org//lisp%20psychoacoustics/2024/05/01/worlds-loudest-lisp-program/</url></story>