Re: Several beginner-questions

[David Kastrup]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> also note, to argue the fine details of what lang support what
> paradigm is a bit nutty, because they are not in any way close to
> mathematically defined. You can only go by practical experiences and
> consensus. Lisp, by all means, is functional langs, albeit absolutely
> not purely functional in any sense. It would be rather difficult, to
> write imperative code in lisp,

Nonsense.  Emacs Lisp is the primordial example of mostly imperative
code written in Lisp: as an Editor, its main purpose is _modifying_
buffers by side effect.  It can also work with strings (which are
immutable for all practical purposes and you return just modified
copies: even though you can do aset on them in theory, nobody does) in a
more functional manner, but its main operations are buffers and
imperative modification.

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David Kastrup