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Object-Oriented equivalent of LISP's progn function?
I'm currently writing a LISP parser that iterates through some AutoLISP code and does its best to make it a little easier to read (changing prefix notation to infix notation, changing setq assignments ...
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What makes JVM so much versatile to support so many JVM languages?
JVM supports so many languages other than Java like Groovy,Clojure,Scala etc which are functional languages unlike Java(I am referring to Java before Version 8 where Lambda's are not supported) that ...
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Is there any difference between pointers and references? [duplicate]
References and pointers do the same thing as I know. Is there any difference between them? If there is no difference, why we call them reference not pointer?
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FP and OO orthogonal?
I have heard this time and again and I am trying to understand and validate the idea that FP and OO are orthogonal. First of all, what does it mean for 2 concepts to be orthogonal ? FP encourages ...
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