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		rifung on Oct 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Not Lisp again (2009) I feel like I am missing something here but are the things mentioned in the article (tail call recursion, first class functions) unique to LISP? They seem available in other functional languages. I was under the impression LISP was unique due to its macros.

cnasc on Oct 26, 2018 [–]

Where do you think those languages got those features from? This story appears to take place in the 80s, incidentally.

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