about SICP and LISP

at first i was like... OMG  dats fucked up where am i!!

but then i read about artificial intelligence and stuff

can you explain why is it better for AI? i might be interested
by this philosophy

dunno yet i'll see if u can convince me

AI involves a lot of calculus and linear algebra. Most programming languages are only good for basic arithmetic and a handful of common trig functions. In Lisp, it's easy to write a macro derivative such that (derivative (expt x 2)) => (* 2 x). Do that in even a high level scripting language, you'd have to write your own data structures and some verbose API. Functional programming in general is a very natural way to implement matrix and vector operations. Exact numbers also help. Try writing a reduced row echelon algorithm using floating-point. It's worthless.