I don't think anyone should expect to get an "Aha! moment" from looking at algorithmic code. That's going to be the same in most languages. If you want a "Lisp

I don't think anyone should expect to get an "Aha! moment" from looking at algorithmic code. That's going to be the same in most languages. If you want a "Lisp Aha! moment" you'd probably be better off looking at something that's actually Lisp-centric like Paradigms of AI Programming by Norvig (https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp). You eventually build up to a Prolog to CL compiler written in CL.