"How the strengths of Lisp-family languages facilitate building complex and flexible bioinformatics applications" by Bohdan B Khomtchouk, Edmund Weitz, Peter D Karp, and Claes Wahlestedt
Damn, interesting read. Some fun facts from the article: Development times for the Lisp programs ranged from 2 to 8.5 h, compared with 2 to 25 h for C/C ++ and 4 to 63 h for Java (programmer experience
Functional Programming Originates from the Urgent Need of Weak Mankind to Resist the Great Universe(en)
Take the Common Lisp program as an example. A Common Lisp program could have been just a function, but in order to make it easier for humans to read it, a function was split into multiple small functions.