As I use other languages more and more, I begin to realize just how powerful lisp's simple "everything is a list" paradigm is. For example, one homework was to

As I use other languages more and more, I begin to realize just how powerful lisp's simple "everything is a list" paradigm is. For example, one homework was to create an object oriented forum. The thing was so complex because I was supposed to differentiate between forum, topic, thread, and post. However, if I made a post a cons cell, then it all collapsed into a branching list where everything is a post, which also gave me easy branching threads.