Thinking in Lisp

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
That's because it takes forever to think of the solution in Lisp and Haskell as opposed to a decent language. Faggot lispers will spend most of their time figuring out how best to abuse recursion because they think it makes them leet programmers or some shit.

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Take a step on the wild side, and code in a functional language.
I think what you meant is ``purely functional language''.  No, tail recursion is not always the clearest way to express a computation, and forcing the programmer to do it in a specific way sounds like a horrible idea to me.  I love playing around and figuring out new and inventive ways to implement silly things like reverse on lists using tail recursion, but when it comes to implementing larger things, it might not be the best approach.