Perhaps the most important defining characteristic of Lisp is "Code as Data."  You won't get that experience in quite the same way with any other language. In C#, the closest analogue is expression trees.

It is that quality that makes Lisp an excellent language for parsing. It's also the quality that motivated Paul Graham to say of Lisp: "The unusual thing about Lisp-- in fact, the defining quality of Lisp-- is that it can be written in itself." Although self-hosting compilers are nothing new, no language does it quite as elegantly as Lisp does.

Metaprogramming (something for which Lisp also excels) is also a worthwhile thing to learn.

Perhaps the most important defining characteristic of Lisp is "Code as Data."  You won't get that experience in quite the same way with any other language. In C#, the closest analogue is expression trees.

It is that quality that makes Lisp an excellent language for parsing. It's also the quality that motivated Paul Graham to say of Lisp: "The unusual thing about Lisp-- in fact, the defining quality of Lisp-- is that it can be written in itself." Although self-hosting compilers are nothing new, no language does it quite as elegantly as Lisp does.

Metaprogramming (something in which Lisp also excels) is also a worthwhile thing to learn.

Beating the Averages by Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Perhaps the most important defining characteristic of Lisp is "Code as Data." You won't get that experience in quite the same way with any other language. In C#, the closest analogue is expression trees.

It is that quality that makes Lisp an excellent language for parsing. It's also the quality that motivated Paul Graham to say of Lisp: "The unusual thing about Lisp-- in fact, the defining quality of Lisp-- is that it can be written in itself." Although self-hosting compilers are nothing new, no language does it quite as elegantly as Lisp does.

Metaprogramming (something for which Lisp also excels) is also a worthwhile thing to learn.

Perhaps the most important defining characteristic of Lisp is "Code as Data."  You won't get that experience in quite the same way with any other language. In C#, the closest analogue is expression trees.

It is that quality that makes Lisp an excellent language for parsing. It's also the quality that motivated Paul Graham to say of Lisp: "The unusual thing about Lisp-- in fact, the defining quality of Lisp-- is that it can be written in itself." Although self-hosting compilers are nothing new, no language does it quite as elegantly as Lisp does.

Metaprogramming (something for which Lisp also excels) is also a worthwhile thing to learn.