“Lisp is not a functional programming language, but it’s in the FP Hall-of-Fame for its historical contributions to the field.” Discuss.
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@raganwald well if I understood@dibblego correctly no language is fp, calling a language an fp language has no sense.
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@dibblego@raganwald "We are urged to return to the mind-numbing syntax of Lisp (a lang that held back pursuit of FP for over a decade)"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dibblego@raganwald That's Richard Bird's resignation from the Haskell committee in 98'.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dibblego@raganwald Very timely discussion as I was just now reading "A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class" which had that quote.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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