I disagree. I hated C and found LISP's style weird when I used it for a BASIC-like 4GL. I used LISP since it made it trivial to do parsing, transformations, rap

I disagree. I hated C and found LISP's style weird when I used it for a BASIC-like 4GL. I used LISP since it made it trivial to do parsing, transformations, rapid prototyping, and extraction to C for portability. I still effectively coded in a structured & imperative style in BASIC. I only knew enough C... a subset of it... to convert the BASIC commands. So, I could program super-fast in a high-level BASIC with C output. LISP was worth using to reduce effort as I have no idea how I'd do all of that in just BASIC or C with what little experience I had.