That's a bit needlessly insulting, but the line in the article about Lisp being functional is telling: Most lisps are emphatically not functional, by any defini

That's a bit needlessly insulting, but the line in the article about Lisp being functional is telling: Most lisps are emphatically not functional, by any definition. Some of it was kind of right, though: Markabye, in particular, looks like the classic lisp HTML generator macro. And hey, most of my Scheme code barely has any macros (so call my idioms a decade out of date, we have a macro system equivalent to CL's, and I've never felt much need to use it. And yes, most Schemes do have a CL-equivalent macro system, it's just nonstandard), and I still love lisp. Lisp has many, many, many, cool advantages, but I still think never having to worry about syntax or indenting style is the greatest one: people underestimate just how much the little things matter. :-)