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by LfLxfxxLxfxx 2919 days ago
Lisp only replaces looping with recursion, it doesn't eliminate it. APL does.
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Lisp idioms like (mapcar function list) replace both looping and recursion with an aggregate operation, similar to APL; it's just not obsessively condensed into a single character syntax.