[kamaal]

1. You write everything as a List. So there is syntax, but not exactly.

2. The data is also list, and your program is also a list.

3. Algorithm are basically List Manipulation(Stacks, Queues, Trees, Adjacency lists). So its easy to write complex algorithms in Lisp.

4. Tail call recursion. This part amplifies 3. further.

5. Functional programming features.

6. REPL. I mean like a real REPL.

7. Macros.

1 - 7 helps you to express problems and their solutions with code which represents exactly that. The boiler plate and other assisting code is largely non existent.

Another reason is if a thing has been there around for the longest, more people have thought about it. Both quality and quantity of literature of it are higher than others.

[blowski]

> Another reason is if a thing has been there around for the longest, more people have thought about it. Both quality and quantity of literature of it are higher than others.

Being older doesn’t necessarily mean either quantity or quality of literature will be greater. MUMPS has been around for much longer than Go, for example.