> People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. The one true language is mathematics. John McCarthy (a math professor) discovered that prog

> People have been searching for the One True Language for decades. The one true language is mathematics. John McCarthy (a math professor) discovered that programs could be represented as out degree one directed graphs (cons cells) that compose mathematical functions (lambda expressions). These simple mathematical principles form the basis of the functional programming paradigm and they have led Lisp programmers to success for nearly a half a century.