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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by hbk on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:15AM (#16584867)
Also Y Combinator is a technique to do recursion on lambda calculus which lisp is built upon.
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Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006) by mbrodersen on Thursday March 15, 2018 @11:46PM (#16598466)
Haskell (and other functional languages) is also built on the lambda calculus. Lisp isn't special in that regard.
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