We should refuse ugliness and deficiency

Mathematics is ugly and deficient. Use finitism instead.
C/C++ is ugly and deficient. Who needs it, when he has assembler and good macro-system?
PHP/Python/Ruby is ugly and deficient. Even if has cheapass hosting.
Java/C# is ugly and deficient. Say this in the face of your retarded indian gandhi manager.
Basic/Pascal/ML/Haskell is ugly and deficient. Better having no school/college education at all, than touching algol static typing faeces.
...

The leaves only Lisp, which is beautiful and efficient silver bullet.

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Hello World

(print "Hello, World!")


MAIN = <PRINTLN "Hello, World!">;
$EXEC MAIN;

Local variables

(let ((x (+ 1 2)))
  (* x x))


<ADD 1 2> :: sX,
  <Mul sX sX>;


Simple function

(defun square (x)
  (* x x))


Square sX = <Mul sX sX>;



Higher-order function

(defun map (f xs)
  (if xs
      (cons (funcall f (car xs))
            (map f (cdr xs)))))
(map #'square '(1 2 3))


Map {

  sF (sX eXs) = <APPLY sF sX> <Map sF (eXs)>;

  sF eXs =;

};

Calling higher-order function

(map #'square '(1 2 3))


<Map *Square (1 2 3)>