The term 'functional language' is not terribly useful these days. You can program in a functional style in many languages, just as you can program in an impera

The term 'functional language' is not terribly useful these days. You can program in a functional style in many languages, just as you can program in an imperative style in Haskell or Scheme. Last year, I wrote an article [1] talking a little bit about this, arguing that the notion of 'language paradigms' is mostly a crutch to avoid thinking critically about what a language is. [1] https://chadaustin.me/2015/09/haskell-is-not-a-purely-functional-language/ https://chadaustin.me/2015/09/haskell-is-not-a-purely-functi...