[rikthevik]

When you write C, you can be reasonably sure it will compile with a decent C compiler. There is no way to write 'Lisp'. Each Lisp dialect has different goals. A person might as well think of them as completely different languages belonging to the Lisp family. It might be analogous to think of Perl, Python and Ruby as being high-level dynamically typed interpreted languages as being part of the same family, but having completely different ways of going about things.

As an aside, I really like clojure. Their attitude towards concurrency and transactions (ie: they actually thought about it) is refreshing. Add to that great library support and good performance and I'm a pretty happy guy.

[lispm]

C, C#, C++, Objective C, C with extensions, ...

[mahmud]

lispm, sophistry and propaganda are near impossible to fight on the internet :-(