Why I love Lisp

Minor nitpick on the article: Common Lisp is not a family, it's a standard with many implementations[1][2].<p>Common Lisp is a member of the Lisp familiy of languages, just like Clojure is.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation" rel="nofollow">http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations</a>

Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.

This post has convinced me to take the time and try to learn at least a few bits of clojure. Thank you!

The problem with these "Why I love blank language" is that they don't really address real-world usages. Sure, syntax overviews and cherry picked examples that show a quicksort in 5 lines are wonderful but no one writes quicksort.<p>What about real-world usages in large systems?

A good introduction to a language that has not been well considered yet.