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by msdos 3646 days ago
Lisp is not a functional programming language.

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somethingsimple 3645 days ago
It's a multi-paradigm language. You can use it for functional programming, but it's not strictly a functional programming language.
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jwdunne 3645 days ago
Yes. In fact, the point with symbols and code as data is that you can implement different paradigms in the language itself. A program implementing prolog, for instance, is an example program in books.
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