Lisp. Lisp is the only language

Why there are other programming languages besides Lisp? With Lisp's macro system you can create any language you need ever. Small, big, finely tuned for your task. Supporting other languages means opposing progress and delaying the inevitable future. There should be only one language and myriad languages at the same time. The one language is Lisp.

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What higher level of abstraction are you talking about? Closures and higher-order functions?

Code=data, you can make a program that writes your program at runtime
I just woke up and can't write nothing more than this.

When I see a person who remains in this excited state about Lisp for months and years and decades, I can only assume that she is retarded

We (well, most of us) are not in that state about Lisp, we're just saying that Lisp has things other languages don't have (or, few languages have: TCL has homoiconicity and can ``fake'' macros using upvar and uplevel, which are both really powerful and enable call-by-name, Forth has macros (immediate words), etc)
Of couse, I have periodically a big "Aha!" when coding in Lisp, when ``discovering'' a new way to do things, and do them better.
You never really master Lisp, you always have something new to learn because of the freedom it gives to the programmer.

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IHBT.