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

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I was taught assembler in my second year of school. It's kinda like construction work -- with a toothpick for a tool. So when I made my senior year, I threw my code away, and learned the way to program that I still prefer today. For God wrote in Lisp code when he filled the leaves with green. The fractal flowers and recursive roots: the most lovely hack I've seen. and when I ponder snowflakes, never finding two the same, I know God likes a language with its own four-letter name.