Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> [And if you wanted to split hairs, Haskell is a pure-functional 
>> language, while Lisp isn't.]
> 
>   A pure-functional language which has things like indexable arrays and
> assignment? Hardly.

Really? And indexable arrays are impure because...?

Similarly, all side-effecting operations are implemented using 
referentially-transparent monadic constructs. In Lisp, if you want a 
side-effect, you just do it. That's the difference.

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