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> Besides the functional approach

Nitpick, but emacs and emacs lisp don't seem remotely "functional" to me insofar as expressing computation in terms of pure functions and immutable datatypes. The core datastructures that an elisp program interacts with (buffers, variables) are all mutable and functions (setq, buffer-string, etc) are decidedly impure.





I wasn't talking about programming.



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