It's a slow shit interpreted language, doesn't have libraries, you have only recursion and stack overflow, doesn't have an {b.u.i.o ENTERPRISE-GRADE OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM}, you can do just fact an fibs.
Why do you use it?
Lisp was implemented by Steve Russell, he figured out how to make Lisp run in a interpreter loop. If it wasnt for Steve, Lisp would have probably ended up looking like ML or Haskell. Many of the features of Lisp like the VM (interpreter), garbage collection and dynamic typing have made an obvious impact on modern programming languages.
This troll is geting old. Most modern Lisp implementations are both natively compiled, fast, have enough libraries (although not all are well maintained), and "stack overflows" only happen if you're being stupid. My bet is you don't even know Lisp or used it for anything real.
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Nah man, he was camparing C/C++ macros to text substitution, which is accurate. I love C, but you could probably write the macro portion of the preprocessor in a single line of readable PCRE.