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From: Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: Friedrich Dominicus's message of "16 Aug 2000 08:09:54 +0200"
Date: 16 Aug 2000 11:17:25 +0200
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Friedrich Dominicus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could you explain why Lisp isn't a FP language?
Well, the obvious arguments would be that
: functions, while pretty first class objects, reside in their own
namespace, and need special operators.
: iteration and side effects are not particularly discouraged, and is
probably as common as recursion and purity in actual code.
-kzm
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