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Why do people still associate FP with Lisp even though HN is supposed to be a lisper hangout :P
by nuje 14y ago
Why do people still associate FP with Lisp even though HN is supposed to be a lisper hangout :P
- VMG 14y agoI was under the impression that Lisp makes it easier to write functional code?
- cousin_it 14y agoYour impression is right. And nuje's question is also right. The goal of Lisp is to make it easier to write all kinds of code, including functional.
- fulafel 14y agoCommon Lisp is a a lot like other dynamic languages in that department. Some lispy languages have more FP support (eg. Scheme says implementations must perform tail call optimization so you can recurse without blowing your stack, which is useful when doing FP).