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jghnyesterday at 4:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Sure, but that's part of my point in agreeing that definitions of "functional programming" are muddy at best. If one were to go back to say 1990 and poll people to name the first "functional programming" language that comes to mind, I'd wager nearly all of them would say something like LISP or Scheme. It really wasn't until the late aughts/early teens when that started to shift.


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agumonkeyyesterday at 4:59 PM

Yeah sorry i wasn't bringing much by commenting this above. And yeah lisp was the historical soil for FP (schemers took the lead on this).

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