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>>Lisp is not, nor has it ever been, a functional programming language.
HNigger deboonked by John McCarthy
>LISP has a partially justified reputation of being more based on theory than most computer languages, presumably stemming from its FUNCTIONAL form, its use of lambda notation and basing the interpreter on a universal function.
>As a programming language, LISP is characterized by the following ideas:
>5. Composition of functions as a tool for forming more complex functions.
>6. The use of conditional expressions for getting branching into function definitions.
>7. The recursive use of conditional expressions as a sufficient tool for building computable functions.
>8. The use of λ-expressions for naming functions.
>12. The LISP function eval that serves both as a formal definition of the language and as an interpreter.
https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th.pdf
