Why and how is Lisp better?
samratjp: One aspect of lisp that I love the most is the "map" function. Arguably, many languages have it now and the infamous Google's map/reduce was inspired by this :-)Also, Lisp has been used in many A.I applications, natural language processing, and of course, I believe this little company called Viaweb (founded by one of the HN users, pg, I think ;-) used lisp to their competitive advantage.