> Functional programs are constructed using only pure functions If that's your definition, functional programs basically don't exist in the real world. Wikiped

> Functional programs are constructed using only pure functions If that's your definition, functional programs basically don't exist in the real world. Wikipedia (and I) don't agree with that [1], it specifically separates out pure FP [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_programming