how relevant is C today?

Mon Apr 10 22:57:41 EDT 2006

In article <443a4e8a$0$21013$626a54ce at news.free.fr>,
 bruno at modulix <onurb at xiludom.gro> wrote:

>gregarican wrote:
>> Here are a few languages I recommend most programmers should at least
>> have a peek at:
>> 
>(snip)
>> 2) Lisp - Along with FORTRAN, one of the oldest programming languages
>> still in use. Pure functional programming model 
>
>Err... Even if Lisp is the father of functional programming, it is
>definitively not a 'pure' FPL.

It _can_ be used as a pure functional language. An interpreter for a 
pure-functional subset of LISP can be written in functional LISP, in 
just a couple of dozen lines of code.