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Can someone direct me to some code where I can see the full potential of Lisp?

I have programmed in Scheme before while taking a course using SICP. Final project was a Scheme interpreter. But I didn't have any epiphany/awakening like many others seems to have.

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* Hiccup (https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup) - DSL for generating html. You can easily mix it with other language constructs. There are similar libraries for Common Lisp and Scheme.

* Compojure-api (https://github.com/metosin/compojure-api) - for building web applications. Mix json-like, hiccup and clojure constructs for web applications and autogenerate Swagger documentation.

* LOL book (https://letoverlambda.com/). Extreme examples what you can do with macros and code modifications during compile time.

* Seesaw (https://gist.github.com/daveray/1441520) - library for building GUI apps with Clojure and Swing. Express GUI elements through declarative syntax. Qt and other libraries has similar feature, but is usually preprocessed with external tools.

* Scheme - MiniKanren (https://docs.racket-lang.org/minikanren/index.html)

Most of these things in regular languages would require modifying language parser or compiler, or adding external tool that will parse that code and generate new one; e.g. like React is doing with html chunks. Also, many Scheme/CL/Clojure implementations provide functions to modify syntax table in runtime, allowing you to alter how things are parsed. That is extremely hard in regular languages due unregular syntax constructs.