Why do people use

/prog/ramming languages other than C, LISP, and PERL for anything?

Personally, I find if quite denigrating to the craft of /prog/ramming.

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Lisp is a functional language, but it doesn't mean everything you can do functional programming in is a Lisp. Haskell is a functional language but I wouldn't consider it a Lisp. It's even possible to use a functional programming style in C, but that doesn't mean C is a Lisp.

I consider Clojure to be a Lisp, however saying it's a Lisp because it's a functional language is pretty silly.