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Your takeaways from Lisp should not be syntax and macros. What makes Lisp good is a non-compromising self respect for itself. You acknowledge yourself as the ultimate language, while recognizing that the job isn't done and that things will have to change. And this bleeds through to everything. This is why lisps that cop out to ideas about "systems languages" are depressing. If this wasn't the spirit of Lisp then it would have died out decades ago because it would be just the same as any other broken boring ALGOL derivative. Just now with procedural macros. Great...
