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		apgwoz on July 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is a functional programming language? interestingly, I believe scheme was a failed[1] attempt at building OOP [1] of course a closure is an object with exactly one method, apply

silentbicycle on July 24, 2009 [–]

No, it was an attempt to implement the Actor model in Lisp. The Actor model isn't what people usually have in mind when someone says OOP - it's more like Erlang or Termite.

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