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by iLemming 2495 days ago
> 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.