I like to call Lisp "semi-functional" -- it provides better support for the functional style than ordinary imperative languages, particularly if you use FSet [0

I like to call Lisp "semi-functional" -- it provides better support for the functional style than ordinary imperative languages, particularly if you use FSet [0] (shameless plug), but is still perfectly good for imperative programming when you want to do that. [0] https://github.com/slburson/fset https://github.com/slburson/fset