i would wager that after having used LISP, you start thinking bottoms up, rather than top down. i.e, instead of thinking about a program as a large one, and br

i would wager that after having used LISP, you start thinking bottoms up, rather than top down. i.e, instead of thinking about a program as a large one, and break it down into smaller, and smaller components or pieces, you'd start with the most bottom-est, most small piece first. Even if that piece isn't useful on its own - or it's only of limited use. Then you'd build another small, may be even orthogonal piece. Once you have these small pieces of individual functions, you might end up building a glue (sort of a language or custom macro?) to bind them together.