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Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

> 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.... 

LISP *let* you do things imperatively.  This can offer the prospect of
performance improvements.

> and the syntax is really horrible.

?  I don't think you understand programming languages.  

LISP has an extremely elegant syntax.  If you've ever heard of, say,
C++ or Java, those are examples of horrible syntaxes.  

-- 
Jim Davidson
jdavidson @ acm.org