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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by Hexstream on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:55AM (#1148095)
By the way, Common Lisp is neither "pure" functional nor not-OO. It's a multi-paradigm language that supports imperative, functional, object-oriented, language-oriented, etc.

Google for CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. I'd say it's more "pure OO" than most so-called object systems in use to day.

Haskell would count as purely functional, not Lisp.

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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by dantheman on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @10:07AM (#1148119)
Agreed -- I've read the art of the metaobject protocol. But when most people think of functional programming they think of lisp, and this was about perception and not technical accuracy.
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