Why is Lisp useful?

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Published on 2010-10-04T12:53:00Z Indexed on 2011/11/28 18:46 UTC
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Lisp obviously is an advantage for the AI stuff but it doesn't appear to me that Lisp is any faster than Java, C#, or even C. 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.

Yet it is considered as a hacker's language.

Why does Paul Graham advocate Lisp? Why did ITA Software choose Lisp over other high Level languages? What value does it have over these languages?

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