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Re:Functional Programming at Facebook by vitno on Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:49PM (#11179528)
This person is getting downvoted... but it isn't.

Lisp, especially in it's early implementations is highly imperative. This is why when people talk about Clojure they always talk about Immutability, it's part of what forces a functional style on the language.

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Re:Functional Programming at Facebook by catnaroek on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:02PM (#11179578)
Immutable data structures don't “force” a functional style, cf. Prolog.

And Lisp is highly imperative even today.

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Re:Functional Programming at Facebook by pjmlp on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:12AM (#11180058)
They talk about Clojure because they weren't even born when we were using Lisp systems.
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