Advantages of Lisp

• Recursion: A program can call itself as a subroutine.

• Dynamic Type Checking: types are tested at runtime
  • Allows short, elegant, powerful programs
  • Incurs a performance penalty

• Garbage Collection: Data storage is recycled automatically.

• Uniform Representation: Programs and data have the same form.
  • Programs can examine other programs.

  • Programs can write programs.

  • Programs can modify themselves (learn).

  • Data structures can contain programs.

• Interaction: The user can combine program writing, compilation, testing, debugging, running in a single interactive session.