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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no, you get it wrong. Lisp has convenient abstractions which are useful but not required to get working programs, the same way subroutines and recursion are useful but not required to write anything.
Instead of using real laguages suited for these problems.
And if you don't have those languages, you have to either write an interpreter or deal with copypasta cause your language lacks abstractions.

(let me here state that some languages which are not lisp don't lack such abstractions, i.e. nemerle; btw look at http://nemerle.org/MacroUse if you want good examples)