Lisp-stick on a Python
I&#x27;ve been hearing claims my entire programming career about how Lisp is supposedly &quot;superior&quot; to mainstream programming languages, but I&#x27;ve never seen a concise code example that actually <i>demonstrates</i> this.<p>For instance, it&#x27;s easy to demonstrate how Rust is superior to C: Just show a short piece of code where an array is returned from a function. In C, this will involve raw pointers and manual memory management with all associated safety and security pitfalls, whereas in Rust you just return a `Vec` and everything is taken care of. Simple, obvious, real-world superiority.<p>How does such an example for Lisp look like? I&#x27;d love to see 10 lines of Lisp that show me something that:<p>1. I can&#x27;t easily do in, say, Rust.<p>2. Actually matters in practice.