Lisps capture something fundamental about computation more cleanly than other languages. In Alan Kay's words,
"Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school—when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” - lifted from [0]
"Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school—when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” - lifted from [0]
[0] http://www.righto.com/2008/07/maxwells-equations-of-software...