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



On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:29:13PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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?

I think Lisp (and scheme, guile, et al) are considered 'impure'
functioncal languages, since they support variable assignment.

-rob

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