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Re: OT: functional languages



martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:
> Haskell, Erlang and Clean are functional programming languages.
>
> Lisp is very similar in terms of the paradigm.
>
> Is Lisp a functional language?

I believe so, yes; the opposite is "imperative language", a la BASIC,
C, Java, Perl, etc.

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David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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