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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by pjmlp on Friday December 09, 2016 @12:36AM (#13136894)
How do you think Xerox PARC, Genera and TI managed to write Lisp based OSes?
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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by lispm on Friday December 09, 2016 @02:36AM (#13137315)
By using all the imperative, procedural and object-oriented features of Lisp.

In many ways the early MIT Lisp Machine morphed into a Flavors Machine in the early 80s.

Remember, Lisp is a multi-paradigm language.

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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by pjmlp on Friday December 09, 2016 @04:43AM (#13137744)
But that is the thing, none of the successful FP languages in the industry are pure FP, rather multi-paradigm, even if functional first.
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