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My point was more to the readers of HN who wouldn't know, and the title just says "Lisp is not functional" so I was providing some context.
by hellofunk 10y ago
My point was more to the readers of HN who wouldn't know, and the title just says "Lisp is not functional" so I was providing some context.
- iak8god 10y agoThanks for clarifying. I can see how it would be confusing for someone to be dropped into chapter 5 of the book with a section title like that. Common Lisp hackers may use "Lisp" colloquially as a shorthand for the language they're working with ("Common Lisp" is a bit of a mouthful, after all), but I don't think many of them are confused about the existence and nature of other lisps, or that they tend to disagree with academics on this.