Lisp - A thinking man's language

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
— Philip Greenspun, March 2007^[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Quotations

I got taught programming in my first year. Me and this other guy were the best at it. He would have been a good programmer, too bad he was kind of poor and so probably didn't have a computer.