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The Lisp machine OSes were pretty amazing. Everything is dynamically updatable, stuff printed to the consoles remained live and interactive, and the user could configure or modify the OS or programs interactively and easily.

While industrial Lisps may or may not be "functional" compared to today's view of the topic, these implementations were at least based around first-class functions.



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