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It seems like modern languages adopt more and more ideas from functional programming as time goes by (garbage collection, closures and higher-order functions, p
by _russross 5y ago
It seems like modern languages adopt more and more ideas from functional programming as time goes by (garbage collection, closures and higher-order functions, parametric polymorphism, immutable values, algebraic types). Modern languages designed for general-purpose use are mostly hybrids, and the functional influence has been steadily growing over the decades.
What influence has Forth had?