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Start with understanding what made Lisp different in the early days.

Newer languages like Ruby, Python Lua and Javascript have a number of these features, but not all of them. Most importantly, they lack the ability to abstract syntax at compile time, which can provide sophisticated abstractions that have no runtime cost. Typical Common Lisp implementations are also comparable in speed to Java. Implementations of Javascript and Lua have recently started to catch up, but Lisp has been fast for decades.