Sometimes I have been pondering what is so great about Free Software. There’s *something* irreplacable that makes it so special to me and many others. Still it’s far from easy to put finger on what the something is, let alone explain it to someone else. At the moment it feels like only some people are curious enough to get into the free software and feel the presence of this something, others live in a different world and aren’t touched by it.
Now I’m beginning to feel the situation is somewhat similar in the Common Lisp world. Likewise, it contains something that makes it special. It’s not easily explainable and only a few people are so attracted by it they overcome the initial challenges of learning Lisp.
I need to think and write more about this.
