From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: basics of LISP Date: 1999/04/30 Message-ID: <3134455666227451@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472633319 References: <4q9W2.1415$vY2.16385@c01read01.service.talkway.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "kburpo" | I'm having a hard time understanding this functional programming thing. | could someone please tell me the basic functioning of LISP? How it works | in a sense? it is really very simple. functional programming means that it is functional, like a machine, a family, a sex life. other programming is by inference dysfunctional. so it isn't "how" it works, but "that" it works that makes it "functional". #:Erik