Lisp is a Write-Only like Perl or Forth

Was looking for an implementation of a "trie" datastructure and run
over this code:

http://www.accesscom.com/~darius/software/scheme-data-structures/trie.scm

Wow, thats impressive close to the perl line noise. Isn't it?

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