Re: Page 76 of OCaml by John Whitington ???

"Hendrik Boom [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:07:26 -0400

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:49:44AM -0500, Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:

> 
> P.S.  I almost forgot.  Is LISP considered the great granddaddy of all
> functional programming languages?  Is it correct to say that OCaml is
> descended from LISP?  Thanks for the feedback.

I'd say so, yes.

Since you are asking about history, perhaps you'd like some:

One of the important papers, while not explicitly about functional 
programming,  that liberated functional programming from LISP was
"The Next 700 Programming Languages", by Peter Landin.

-- hendrik