Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2002-12-13T14:52:51Z, Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> writes: > > > Yes. So is Ocaml and I think Scheme also. > > Since Scheme is a Lisp derivative, yes, it's also a functional language. Scheme is a functional language; but I hesitate to call Lisp "functional". In fact, Scheme was originally developed as a simplification of Lisp to focus on functional programming. Lisp can be used in a functional way, but also has imperative features. In fact, by modern standards, even Scheme is not a "purely" functional language; its expressions can have side effects, variables can be reassigned, etc. Craig
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