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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
>=20
> > LISP is a very bad functional programming language, because it
> > allows you to use it imperatively: first do this, change the program
> > state, then do that, etc.... and the syntax is really horrible.
>=20
> Why are you using it imperatively, then, if you don't want to?  Or are
> you speaking of modifying existing code?

Ok, so what we *really* need is Emacs based on Erlang or Haskell.