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> It's an object-oriented imperative language.

add functional, add meta-programming.

The Common Lisp object-system does not use the more imperative message-sending / virtual method calling. It favors "generic functions of related methods" instead - thus this is kind of an integration of function-centric programming into the traditional view of OOP where methods belong to classes.




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