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I recently took a Programming Languages course and was required to present a language of our choice in an ~1h presentation. I chose Lisp, specifically Common Lisp or CLisp, because I didn't know anything about it, but liked playing with the functional language ML that we were tested on in the course. Functional languages (oCaml, ML) are much different than imperative languages (C++, Java) because the concepts like recursion, lambda functions (or inline functions), and high-order functions are the basic tools used by functional coders.