Why people keep claiming that Lisp is the best programming language?

>>59336825
clojure is pretty versatile, so why not?

It's the most flexible programming language.
Look at Emacs for example.

>>59336825
>Lisp is the best programming language
Enjoy no job with your esoteric minority language.

>>59336825
They never programmed with other people.

>>59336825
The Forth one is pretty accurate, frankly

>>59339813
The forth one is the only one I don't understand.
Why is forth portrayed as a bomber?

>>59339965
You know how in most programming languages, there are functions, and you give them arguments, and the arguments can be expressions built up from smaller expressions?
Forth doesn't have any of that. It has an input buffer and some data structures globally accessible from any command ("word"). It runs one command at a time. Each command can perform more or less arbitrary manipulation of global program state.
Forth grants the programmer a lot of power, but it's also a little bit crazy, like a hermit building bombs in the woods.

>>59340073
yeah, maybe it is a bit crazy. But it is also pretty cool.

>>59339965
It's a system that does JIT based on mostly macros that in the end boils down to assembly.

The programmer mostly puts together macros based on other macros.

Those macros are called words.