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AnimalMuppet on March 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Acing the technical interview

You can write functional code in Lisp. But Lisp isn't really a functional language. That is, you have to kind of fight the language to write non-functional code in Haskell. In Lisp, you don't.

So if you learn Lisp, you learn a language that transcends programming style. It's much more universal than Haskell.

platz on March 16, 2017 [–]

if you learn Lisp, you very quickly learn to lean heavily on macros, which is very much a programming style.

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