[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by mtrawls

... did you have to bad mouth Lisp? Once you get your eyes fixed after looking at a program or two, it ain't all that bad ... actually, it can be quite powerful. I especially like Scheme (a dialect of Common Lisp). Hrm ... how odd that I put that in parentheses, no?

Afterall, who can resist tail-end recursion and the ability to say cadr, caaddr, etc. as freely as one pleases?

   (define (factorial n)
     (define (iterate n acc)
       (if (<= n 1)
           acc
           (iterate (- n 1) (* acc n))))
     (iterate n 1))

English? or at least C?