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Re:The Idea of Lisp by DonaldFisk on Saturday December 17, 2016 @09:00AM (#13200728)
So it isn't really functional at all. It just hides the side effects behind a lot of complexity.
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Re:The Idea of Lisp by junke on Saturday December 17, 2016 @10:26AM (#13201013)
This is precisely what functional programming does. Purely functional abstractions are just that, abstractions.
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