Comment by walnutclosefarm

Neither the list paradigm, nor functional languages generally, ever really gelled in my mind, the way, say, OO did. Algorithms expressed in functional form in LISP always seemed contorted from their natural form, to me. So, mostly I found LISP to be an awkward, "unscannable" language. I could write it, and read it, but it always felt a little like reading and writing a foreign language to me, not something in which my mind was native.