..."I always wondered about people calling Lisp a functional language" Even more interesting: why do people call a family of language a language? elisp, for e

..."I always wondered about people calling Lisp a functional language" Even more interesting: why do people call a family of language a language? elisp, for example, certainly doesn't put the emphasis on FP. But Clojure does (although you can use Clojure in a non-functional way). But it's not that much of a surprise: nowadays talks about FP are everywhere, so programmers who think they understand FP use the term for everything. For example you can have Excel spreadsheet having cells which shall always update themselves automatically from the network: like a cell containing the current date. Or a cell containing the current exchange rate between this and that currency. Yet recently on HN in every single thread about Excel you had armies of retards explaining that "Excel was the ultimate functional programming language". People are really that retarded. Even on HN. And it's frankly sad. :(