In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>gregarican wrote:
>> Here are a few languages I recommend most programmers should at least
>> have a peek at:
>> 
>(snip)
>> 2) Lisp - Along with FORTRAN, one of the oldest programming languages
>> still in use. Pure functional programming model 
>
>Err... Even if Lisp is the father of functional programming, it is
>definitively not a 'pure' FPL.

It _can_ be used as a pure functional language. An interpreter for a 
pure-functional subset of LISP can be written in functional LISP, in 
just a couple of dozen lines of code.
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