You'll only appreciate PG's fanaticism for Lisp if you've programmed in it exclusively for about a year. Common tasks flow effortlessly from the Lisp mind-meld

You'll only appreciate PG's fanaticism for Lisp if you've programmed in it exclusively for about a year. Common tasks flow effortlessly from the Lisp mind-meld with short-and-sweet potency. Haskell is fun, yes, but rather sententious in its purity whereas Lisp is both elegant and "scrappy" (thus the term "Lisp hacker"). Neither is commonplace in scientific computing, however.