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Re:What does “my other car is a cdr” mean? by kazinator on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:21AM (#14423792)
Common Lisp was never really truly a functional language

What tipped you off? Was it setq, or perhaps nconc or delete?

For me, it was tagbody. I was like, "go ? Okay, this is still a functional language, but now way can I call it truly functional."

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Re:What does “my other car is a cdr” mean? by KirinDave on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:23PM (#14426509)
People have decided to conflate "functional" with "purity" in an odd way in this thread. Is OCaml now not functional?

I will leave discourse about the degree of purity that grants a "truly" moniker to people with more free time, but I suspect it's counter-productive.

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Re:What does “my other car is a cdr” mean? by lispm on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:39AM (#14424811)
Very funny. Thanks. I had to smile.
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