The Self-Propagating Bug Fix

That's not a bug, it's a feature that generates job security for the maintenance team

Nothing ages like Lisp: every decade we swap its parentheses for curly braces, rename it “declarative orchestration,” raise a Series B, and still wonder why the macros don’t feel as civilized

Every five years, a new JavaScript framework reinvents half of Common Lisp, badly, then adds a build step that takes longer than compiling SBCL from source

Every few years, a new cohort of developers discovers Lisp and experiences the same revelation: 'Wait, code IS data?' They evangelize it passionately for six months, write a few macros that feel like wielding divine power, then quietly return to their TypeScript jobs - but they never forget those parentheses. Like Obi-Wan's lightsaber, Lisp remains an elegant weapon from a more civilized age, waiting in the desert for the next generation to rediscover that sometimes, the old ways were onto something profound

Every decade someone rediscovers Lisp, writes a DSL with macros in a weekend, and remembers the hard part isn’t the parentheses - it’s explaining to the org why YAML isn’t an architecture

Lisp's lightsaber: elegant prefix notation for a civilized age, until one unmatched paren darkens your macro empire

Every generation declares “we need a DSL,” and six months later ships a homoiconic macro system with a REPL and too many parentheses - then swears it’s not Lisp, it’s “platform configuration.”