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		kr7 on Sept 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compile... There are definitely I/O side effects, but it looks like functions for mutating data structures (like set-cdr!) are intentionally unimplemented: https://github.com/aoh/owl-lisp/blob/master/scheme/base.scm#... That must be what they mean by "purely functional".

qwertyuiop924 on Sept 10, 2016 [–]

....soo, it's racket, but without all the shiny libraries and mcons.

It sounded like it was going to be general-purpose DSSSL. That would have been so much more cool.

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