Shalom my friend! This text board is very different from the rest of 4chan, so you might want to restrict your statement to just this board. Lisp is so popular because it is a sort of red pill that makes the illusions of surface syntax fall and exposes the raw and real syntax behind, and because it is the language used in the best book in the universe, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman.