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



also sprach Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.12.13.1443 +0100]:
> 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.

while C is an imperative language, Erlang is a functional or
procedural language. (correct me if i am wrong, folks). it has no
loops, assignments, variables or whatever.

Since Lisp is very similar, I was wondering if it's also "functional"...

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