I had the same experience with lisp, and it's one of the reasons I chose to keep programming (and eventually major in CS) during college. It's crazy how easy i

I had the same experience with lisp, and it's one of the reasons I chose to keep programming (and eventually major in CS) during college. It's crazy how easy it is to learn how to pattern match well enough that you can build really useful stuff while still not really understanding what you're doing. Human brains are amazing.