I've finally gotten around to reading a LISP book that I had bought months before, and I can see why people refer to LISP as a religious experience (I've seen that said at least twice). It's really a wonderful language. I wonder how it is worse than BASIC or Perl. Also, although I didn't really take the time to really understand smalltalk (Squeak is slow and unstable), I can see the beginnings of smalltalk in LISP. Wow. This thing really is pretty amazing. This should be taught in every computer programming course, along with PAL-8, C, and Perl. I am now certain that if a language is hard to learn (C++ comes to mind), there's something wrong with it :) --Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)