I'm not sure if you're being serious here or not... It's tough to tell on the interwebs... But I'll play devil's advocate and pretend that you aren't joking. W

I'm not sure if you're being serious here or not... It's tough to tell on the interwebs... But I'll play devil's advocate and pretend that you aren't joking. Writing Java in Lisp doesn't mean you've mastered Lisp. There is a difference between understanding the logic and creating the implementation in the best way possible, given the language. As a very simplistic example, C and Python have two different ways to iterate. You could write a loop in Python in a C-like way, but there are much better ways to do it (list comprehensions). On the flip side, just because C doesn't have list comprehensions doesn't mean it's less powerful as a language. It just does things in a different way. Knowing those sorts of things is why being idiomatic in a language is part of mastering it.