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by coldtea 3769 days ago
If you have been around 10 years ago, including on HN, everybody considered Lisp not only "a functional language", but "THE functional language".

Heck, Haskell was barely ever mentioned.

Not to mention that the whole idea of functional programming was introduced to the programming world with McCarthy and Lisp.

(Except if you want to say that "Lisp is not functional, it supports many paradigms" -- but I find that tired. It is, at its core, functional).