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Re:What is Symbolic Computation? by msdos on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @10:37PM (#12006241)
Lisp is not a functional programming language.

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Re:What is Symbolic Computation? by somethingsimple on Thursday June 30, 2016 @02:38AM (#12006962)
It's a multi-paradigm language. You can use it for functional programming, but it's not strictly a functional programming language.
Re:What is Symbolic Computation? by jwdunne on Thursday June 30, 2016 @03:08AM (#12007031)
Yes. In fact, the point with symbols and code as data is that you can implement different paradigms in the language itself. A program implementing prolog, for instance, is an example program in books.