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"Back in the day" we didn't call a language functional. The 1967 Lisp 1.5 Primer on my desk for example doesn't use the term at all. The widespread use of langu
by KingOfCoders 4y ago
"Back in the day" we didn't call a language functional. The 1967 Lisp 1.5 Primer on my desk for example doesn't use the term at all. The widespread use of language categorization came with object oriented languages which used that as a marketing term.
- morelisp 4y agoOK boomer.
- stewbrew 4y agoIIRC lisp was already called "functional" in the 1980s. It was in contrast to purely procedural languages. I cannot comment on the 1970s.
- lispm 4y agoThe functional Lisp (Lisp without assignment) was called "Pure Lisp" back then. Sometimes also there was the term "applicative language".
- KingOfCoders 4y ago"Lisp, an acronym for list processing"