Enlighten me on Lisp. There's something eerie about it.

look up church turing thesis. if you know C you understand only 1 side of the thesis, lisp and other functional languages are the other side

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It's a concrete, textual syntax that mirrors the abstract syntax more closely than any concrete syntax that I'm aware of. Also, programs are represented as Lisp data structures, making programmatic manipulation of programs easier than in most other languages.

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I've used it for a while, and I liked it.

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python superseded it. Its not even taught anywhere anymore

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Common lisp is one of the two best programming languages there are.

If you don't believe me learn how it works and prove me wrong.

Protip you can't because you are lazy neet

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Lisp is lambda calculus incarnate. McCarthy, the guy who created Lisp, even said he basically based Lisp off of lambda calculus.

What is lambda calculus? It attempted to be an investigation into the foundations of math. What it ended up being was a really damned good model of computation at the most abstract level (rather than the machine level).

Compare this to C -- an approach to computation from the Vonn Neuman, relatively un-abstracted direction.

This is why Lisp is so transcendental. You're literally approaching programming from the purest way in "mathematical" abstraction. There's an equally pure way, that is Haskell, which is based on typed lambda calculus.