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by agumonkey 4316 days ago
By feature set you mean sequences, map/filter/reduce and such ?

I felt there was more to Lisp than that. It was the root of the ML/function-based family, which deepened the recursive typed logic McCarthy talked about in his early papers.

The first-class function and functions as modeling unit, giving composability, and domain embedding as first class.