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by lispm 939 days ago
Lisp is even not a language, it's a family of languages. It started as a "LISt Processor", but it

A lot of early FP teaching was done in Lisp. Some kind of "Pure Lisp" was used, which are imaginary subsets of Lisp, restricted to side-effect-free, non-destructive functions.

FP started quite a bit before Miranda.