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Scheme fits the common definition of a functional language, even if it's not pure in the same way as Haskell. Especially since idiomatic Scheme uses pure functions and recursion (as opposed to idiomatic CL which is a lot more imperative).


To the contrary, idiomatic Scheme also uses a lot of stateful data.




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