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Is it possible that "functional programming" meant as in Kleene's Introduction to Metamathematics, where the work has a mathematical flavor with recursive funct

Is it possible that "functional programming" meant as in Kleene's Introduction to Metamathematics, where the work has a mathematical flavor with recursive functions, in contrast with FORTRAN or ALGOL or whatever language DR was using on physical machines at the time?

IncRnd 6y ago
That's a good point. I wonder if functional programming, at least partially, referred to the array programming of APL.