scotto.me/blog/2026-07-09-why-lisp

no they’re not

macros are just copy-paste

also macros

ugh fine

pure functional programming

pure what

lisp is just... pure

ouch

python’s like 10k lines

haha that’s adorable

yeah lisp’s core is like 100 lines

tiny as in... small?

wait what

like 10 lines of code

also it’s tiny

yeah kinda

like... sideways?

lisp teaches you to think differently

seriously though...

haha okay

fun like a root canal

because it’s fun

why even bother

lol

worse

so like... cobol?

old language with parentheses

wait what’s lisp again