Comment by stray

15 years ago

There's nothing preventing you from writing imperative code in Lisp.

That's true but if you want to learn Lisp (anything) well you will have to see examples, talk with peers etc. Everyone discourages too much imperative code in Lisp so this will be very hard to pick up on your own. So to be an effective Lisp-learner you will have to grok map, first order functions and what not.