Subject: Re: basics of LISP From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/04/30 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3134455666227451@naggum.no> * "kburpo" <crank_daddy@hotmail.com> | 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