The long and the short of it is that lisp, for all its faults, is superior to commonly used programming languages in most cases. It's almost as fast and way, w

The long and the short of it is that lisp, for all its faults, is superior to commonly used programming languages in most cases. It's almost as fast and way, way more expressive than C, C++ and Java. It's still more expressive and 100x faster than Perl, Python, Ruby. It's the expressivity that hooks you in, in my experience. Once you've gotten used to programming with macros (code rewriting programs), the thought of programming without them seems almost as bad as programming without functions.