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by flavio81 3096 days ago
>They aren't human-first languages. S-expressions are easy for a computer, they are hard for a human.

I've used Python, C, C++, C#, Java and Pascal extensively. I can safely say Common Lisp allows you to write the most readable code of all languages i've used, and i'd expect this to be the same for most other lisps.

Since they are hugely flexible, they allow you to write code in such a way that the problem and solution are expressed in the most explicit and straightforward way.