Just in case anyone interested in Lisp reads this, Lisp (short for Common Lisp) is not a functional language. You can write imperative programs. You can write o

Just in case anyone interested in Lisp reads this, Lisp (short for Common Lisp) is not a functional language. You can write imperative programs. You can write object oriented programs. You can write functional programs. You can write programs that are all 3 at the same time. Lisp is designed to handle whatever you can think up. Not sure what this guy is talking about. Especially since python forces you to constantly create temporary throw away variables without being able to be explicit about their scope.