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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.... and the syntax is really horrible.

Why are you using it imperatively, then, if you don't want to?  Or are
you speaking of modifying existing code?

kai
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