To feel 'magic', I think you need to read SICP and to do write some typical programms where lisp is really effective: - a lisp interpreter (the second step may

To feel 'magic', I think you need to read SICP and to do write some typical programms where lisp is really effective: - a lisp interpreter (the second step may be a non deterministic lisp interpreter). - symbolic derivation - a prolog interpreter If you try any of these exercises in a only procedural language (C, Ada, Pascal, Fortran, ...), you should feel how unnatural it is compared to lisp.