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mlang23 on Oct 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Carp – A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for ...

Lisp is definitely not as functional as for instance Haskell is. Side-effect-freeness was never really a topic for Lispers.

medo-bear on Oct 15, 2021 [–]

You are right, Lisp is far more versatile. There is even a statically-typed language Coalton [1] embedded into Lisp.

[1] https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/

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