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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Now, some folks on the Internet put their faith in C++.
They swear that it's so powerful, it's what God used for us. And maybe it lets mortals dredge their objects from the C. But I think that explains why only God can make a tree.