If you don't need the things that only Lisp can do, there's not as much of a reason to use it. True. But the Lisp programmer would reply that you need the thi

If you don't need the things that only Lisp can do, there's not as much of a reason to use it. True. But the Lisp programmer would reply that you need the things only Lisp can do in most non-trivial programs.