Accelerating hindsight
Kent M. Pitman · ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers · 1994
From time to time, I meet people who really like Lisp but who find themselves at a loss for words when trying to articulate to others the various reasons why. For example, many people agree that good support for rapid prototyping is a key strength of Lisp. But what is rapid prototyping and how exactly is it that Lisp supports it better than other languages?