Comment by skydhash

> I'm happy to adapt if I feel I got something in return

Lisp is not a silver bullet. Whatever you can do with lisp, you can do with C or with JavaScript. What's different is how you do it. And it turns out that it's easier to create elegant solutions in Lisp as the mental model is heavily based on mathematics (lambda calculus). It's a different models of computing and solutions you're used to may no longer applied. Instead you reach out to a new way of solving the problem.

When I say iteration is tricky, it's that most of the time, you relying on some mutable state to do the looping (i counter) and early termination, but in CL and Clojure, there often are easier ways.

I'd recommend learning about computing models. Some solutions are easier to solve in one than the others. And now computers are powerful enough that we don't have to worry about performance (that often) and we can focus on creating better programs.