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Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)



on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:29:13PM +0100, martin f krafft insinuated:
> because i stumbled upon this yesterday and couldn't find an answer...
> 
> Haskell, Erlang and Clean are functional programming languages.
> 
> Lisp is very similar in terms of the paradigm.
> 
> Is Lisp a functional language?

what do you mean by "functional"?  even though i have quite limited
experience with it, i've certainly seen plugins for the GIMP and
things written in it.  Or maybe that was scheme.

and it's totally cool -- all those parentheses ... :))))))

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