> You can write very dense code in Lisp (and the author makes the point several times on how little lines of code you need for this vs. that). However, who's go

> You can write very dense code in Lisp (and the author makes the point several times on how little lines of code you need for this vs. that). However, who's going to read that and understand it? Lisp macros do not depend on whole-program/file/module compilation. You can take any piece of Lisp code and macroexpand it whenever (for example, SLIME has shortcut keys to show the macroexpansion of the expression at cursor: https://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Macro_002dexpansion.html https://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Macro_002...) This makes Lisp code much easier to understand than C++ with templates and operator overloading. Almost every time a Lisp discussion comes up on HN, or anywhere else, someone takes it upon themselves to troll "Lisp is hard to read!" (today, that winner is you). But for some reason that never seems to happen in discussions about C++.