[NotRustAgain]

There are several things you could take away from Lisp. I don't think you caught the good parts yet though.

My idiot instructor for comparative programming languages set me back years in understanding the cool parts of Lisp. He focused on "List Processing", which seemed pointless to me because lots of languages have lists... (I work with him now, so I'm allowed to call him an idiot)

You seem to think it's about the function calls. Maybe you had a bad instructor too, and he focused on "functional programming", which is all the rage for the last decade. I dunno, maybe you came to that conclusion on your own.

The thing I now think is wonderful about Lisp (Scheme for me), is that you can write your program however you want. If you want to use switch statements, and your language doesn't have one (Python), just make your own:

    (switch foo
        (case bar -> (do whatever you want))
        (case hmm -> (do something else)))

Some languages have backtracking:

    (backtrack
        (keep trying)
        (different things)
        (until it works))

You just can't add those kinds of features to most languages because most languages are not programmable...