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I suppose the "Eureka" moments were more impressive when Lisp started getting adopted (when the alternatives were to manage your own memory and even routines we

I suppose the "Eureka" moments were more impressive when Lisp started getting adopted (when the alternatives were to manage your own memory and even routines were not an object). But it still has better compactness than Python, in my comparison full of caveats. https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#overall-map https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#overall-map What Python needs 350-400 chars for, you can do in 250-300 in Lisp or Clojure.

lispm 4y ago
The compactness is more to be expected in mid- to large-size software. Where one uses macros to develop internal domain specific languages, etc. Long ago I was at a talk where a project manager reported that their slightly over 100 people Lisp team could compete with a roughly 1000 people C++ team, both developing a similar product (an enterprise network switch).