Exploratory programming, where you have an idea but are not sure how to get there, is an area where lisps arguably outshine everything else. Thanks to macros y

Exploratory programming, where you have an idea but are not sure how to get there, is an area where lisps arguably outshine everything else. Thanks to macros you can shape the way your code looks to fit the domain you are working in to pretty extensive degrees. When you throw in the power something like Clojure gives you, with lisp style syntax and macros but access to all the libraries on the JVM (including Jetty/Hadoop/etc) you can accomplish a lot.