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		_dain_ on April 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common Lisp Resources > First-class functions, lambdas, and closures are mostly unheard of in the top 20 programming languages. Aside from JS, you're pretty much out of luck. uh, what? plenty of popular languages have all of those things.

hajile on April 22, 2022 [–]

Very few popular languages have all three and most that have them have them as bolted-on, unergonomic hacks that are generally more trouble to use than they are worth.

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