[davesque]

Slightly off-topic: Does anyone know if Sage allows for lisp-style meta-programming like Mathematica?

[sold]

It's Python - you can do a lot of meta-programming with it, though unlike Lisp and Mathematica there's a division between expressions and statements.

[williamstein]

For what it is worth, lisp is also one of the components of Sage, since we need it for Maxima, which provides some important functionality.

sage: lisp('(+ 2 3)')

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