1) Specify which Lisp you're talking about. "Lisp" in and of itself most generally means a family of languages, making the submission title sorta worthless. 2)

1) Specify which Lisp you're talking about. "Lisp" in and of itself most generally means a family of languages, making the submission title sorta worthless. 2) Assuming you mean Common Lisp, it isn't purely functional. You can do imperative, OO and functional programming with Common Lisp. If anything, languages like Haskell have more right to be offended, which leads me to my next point... 3) More languages than Lisp support the functional paradigm. Yes, the submitted page is dumb in the typical Wolfram way (everything I do is an assimilation of what other people have already done but it's SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING LIKE IT BLAH BLAH BLAH), but there's no reason to get defensive about Lisp in particular. No one is going to take Lisp away from us. Chill out!