I don't think the Lisp curse is bollocks at all and I encountered it many a time myself during my Lisp (and later Clojure) years... But I also think Forth would a much better example since the effects ascribed to the "Lisp curse" are actually constituting peak idiomatic design/implementation goals in Forth, i.e. eschew general purpose libraries, every app is its own DSL, super terse documentation etc.
Thanks for the tante (npub1j8v…ld5q) link, will check it out later! 🙏
Karsten Schmidt
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