Good articles
- The Nature of Lisp: an explanation of lisp's elegance for imperative programmers
- Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented: Paul Graham on why his lisp dialect is not object oriented
LISPs are traditionally named using synonyms for cleverness, such as Guile or Scheme; artifice is built into the language itself. Artful code is expressive, efficient, elegant, and idiomatic, in that order.
