Greenspun's tenth rule is a trap: to admit you follow it, you must evince dangerous lispish tendencies. But to deny you follow it, you must point to all your code and say, "Inquisitors! I defy you to find the tiniest spot of lisp in my unblemished codebase!"


Really, though, "Lisp" in this context means "Lisp at its best." Take a few months off your job, stay away from romance and fun, and just read the Common Lisp manuals and The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, and you too will understand Lisp At Its Best. And you will realize why List At Its Best probably can't be yours.

And if you start hassling other languages for not being Lisp At Its Best... why, is that really Lisp's fault? really?