PROG LANG QUESTIONNAIRE

0. What programming languages do you intimately know?
1. What are your preferred paradigms?
2. What software dev 'habits' piss you off?
3. Choose: Emacs, Vim, or <crap>?

>>24

backpaddling is defined as saying "I use lisp because it is functional" and then 10 seconds later "you can do all sorts of imperative programming in lisp"... then, pray tell, what the fudge is functional programming, if it's also imperative. One can do functional programming in an imperative language too, by passing around pointers to functions (procedures).. but does this actually make the code more readable: no. Recursion is also possible in imperative languages. Does this make the program more readable: no.