What is Lisp good for?

When I hear Bash/Perl/Ruby/Java/C/ML/Erlang/Smalltalk/etc I know what I'm dealing with, I know what they are good for and when to use them, but what about List? Don't get me wrong, I like Lisp, I just don't see for what I could use it.

So, what are you doing with Lisp and why exactly Lisp over any other PL?

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Instead of using real laguages suited for these problems.
Wait, there's a language specifically for looping and iteration?

Like any other language
No. C is not, C++ is not. Many are not.

WinAPI, not even reading
Yes, disregard the meaning behind the explanation because of something trivial like the library it uses.

Is that really so much of a problem?
Not that much. It was demonstrating one of the things you can do with macros and syntactic abstraction.

You can't do it in c, yes, c is old, but you can in many other languages (see perl).
Can't do what, good syntactic abstraction? Or good semantic abstraction? I agree on both points, and that of a lot of other languages.

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You seem to misunderstand. But hell, I don't care to try to convince anyone if they are uninterested.