On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:29:13PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > because i stumbled upon this yesterday and couldn't find an answer... > > Haskell, Erlang and Clean are functional programming languages. > > Lisp is very similar in terms of the paradigm. > > Is Lisp a functional language?
I think Lisp (and scheme, guile, et al) are considered 'impure' functioncal languages, since they support variable assignment. -rob
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