"Last night, I drifted off while reading a Lisp book. Suddenly, I was bathed in a suffusion of blue. At once, just like they said, I felt a great enlightenment. I saw the naked structure of Lisp code unfold before me. (My god. It's full of "car"s.) The patterns and metapatterns danced. Syntax faded, and I swam in the purity of quantified conception. Of ideas manifest. Truly, this was the language from which the Gods wrought the universe! [God replies:] "No, it's not. [...] I mean, ostensibly, yes. Honestly, we hacked most of it together with Perl.""