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by uncleshelby 752 days ago
Matthew Butterick wrote a book about Racket (a dialect of Lisp) which has a great appendix that tries to explain why Lisp is worth learning:

https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-racket-why-lisp.htm...

There are lots of evangelist explanations for why Lisp is The Best out there, but this is one of the better and more concrete ones.