Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Courageous]

>For doing more complicated things, there's also a general
>iteration construct (called (do ...) if I remember correctly).

You recall correctly. I believe that loop() is used frequently
as well.

>but the syntax is so frigging hard to remember that it's 
>often easier and clearer to write it recursively even if 
>you don't strictly need to.

One variant of loop has you doing:

(loop while (condition)
	)

That's pretty easy syntax. The bigger complaint would be
to point out just how _many_ ways you can loop. That's
a humdinger. :-)

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