DatIsNature And The Beauty of Lisp

Was it Neal Stephenson who said that Lisp is the only beautiful programming language? The excellent DataIsNature has a link to a
snippet of Lisp to draw the Mandelbrot set, which is a case in point:

(loop for y from -1 to 1.1 by 0.1 do

	      (loop for x from -2 to 1 by 0.04 do

		   (let* ((c 126)

			  (z (complex x y))

			  (a z))

		     (loop while (< (abs

				     (setq z (+ (* z z) a)))

				    2)

			while (> (decf c) 32)) 

		     (princ (code-char c))))

	      (format t "~%"))