&quot;They both allow you to pass functions as arguments to other functions.&quot;<p>&quot; Is it because Lisp is seen as the birthplace of functional languages (because of point 2)?&quot;<p>That was my feeling. Some tenuous connection that leads to meaningless comparisons. They have such different styles, cultures, and attributes that direct comparisons don&#x27;t even make sense. People might technically be able to do something that&#x27;s unnatural in one in the other easily. And vice versa. Question: would any idiomatic user of either really want to or waste time doing it that way? Probably not...