I believe societies weren't that different, they probably tried to reinvent rules and laws too. Cycling around, massaging ideas until they provided enough social stability to stay.
It's easy to assume ego is behind making a new language, but many languages were imperfect creations based on a set of strange constraints.
It's also a honest path too, you don't like something, you make your own. Some people would rant about the existing state of things which is not helping. A working website was made with it so it's not a toy.
Most things exist because the status quo felt not good enough that someone tried another path.
And in the context of lisp it's a very strange attack.. lisp explicitly embedded the foundation for people to build their own dialects so they wouldn't have to suffer prior decisions too much.
It's easy to assume ego is behind making a new language, but many languages were imperfect creations based on a set of strange constraints.
It's also a honest path too, you don't like something, you make your own. Some people would rant about the existing state of things which is not helping. A working website was made with it so it's not a toy.
Most things exist because the status quo felt not good enough that someone tried another path.
And in the context of lisp it's a very strange attack.. lisp explicitly embedded the foundation for people to build their own dialects so they wouldn't have to suffer prior decisions too much.