> But somebody needs to break it to him that Lisp is not a functional language Lisp is not a language at all. It's an idea. And if you grok the awesomeness of

> But somebody needs to break it to him that Lisp is not a functional language Lisp is not a language at all. It's an idea. And if you grok the awesomeness of that idea you can make any kind of language using it: functional, OOP, relational, whatever. Bob is talking about Clojure. Clojure is a functional Lisp.