Matthew Butterick wrote a book about Racket (a dialect of Lisp) which has a great appendix that tries to explain why Lisp is worth learning: https://beautifulr

Matthew Butterick wrote a book about Racket (a dialect of Lisp) which has a great appendix that tries to explain why Lisp is worth learning: https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-racket-why-lisp.html https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-racket-why-lisp.htm... There are lots of evangelist explanations for why Lisp is The Best out there, but this is one of the better and more concrete ones.