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I stopped listening when she said 'code and data are the same thing in a functional language'. Well not really, code and data are the same in a homoiconic language, but really any language with sufficient reflection capabilities can mix code and data. It has nothing to do with being functional.

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But all functional languages are Lisp, right?

Not sure if you're being facetious, but no, not all functional languages are Lisps. Haskell, ML, Ocaml, and Scala all come to mind as functional languages that are far from Lisp.

I was being facetious. Sorry.

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