Why do you like Lisp ?

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Why does Paul Graham advocate Lisp? Why did ITA Software choose Lisp over other High Level languages?

Lisp obviously is an advantage for the AI stuff but I don't think Lisp is any faster than Java, C# or as a matter of fact faster than C. Still it is considered as a Hackers language? I am not a master of Lisp but I find it incredibly difficult to understand the advantage one would get in writing Business Software in Lisp.

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