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> Logo gave me a brief taste of functional programming even though back then I did not know the term "functional programming". This is what Unix pipes did for

> Logo gave me a brief taste of functional programming even though back then I did not know the term "functional programming". This is what Unix pipes did for me. By the time I started programming constructing programs as series of side effect-free transformations felt perfectly natural (to be precise I did have some previous imperative programming experience and I didn't like it / grok it)

Rygian 5y ago
I was surprised by this statement, as logo commands form very much an imperative language.
- lambdaba 5y ago
  Superficially it looked like that... but I know very little about Logo, although Wikipedia puts it in the "Lisp" family so?
- macintux 5y ago
  Imperative and FP aren't really in opposition; Erlang, e.g., has been described as a functional language with an imperative core.