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Found this in Planet Lisp - a fascinating look at a Java guy's first interaction with a dynamic language:

The interpreter immediately is waiting for you to tell it to do something, so I entered at the prompt:

>
>> (  10 2)
>
>and it gave me:
>12
>

Wow! I know this does not seem like much, but from the Java world where I come from, to get a Java program to add two numbers together would have taken a public static void main(String args) (etc) with the correct classpath settings, a class file, a compilation, and an execute.

Heh. I enjoy showing jsp developers "self halt." in an SSP page, myself :)