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Edit: I meant to say functional not pure functional. Blog post changed.

• minimax 14y ago
  He's making the distinction between saying a language is "functional" versus "pure functional." It is not correct to classify Lisp and Erlang as pure functional languages, because they both include support for imperative style programming.
• DanWaterworth 14y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional
• Ralith 14y ago
  I question your qualification to advise people on interviews if your own theory knowledge tops out at "casually skimmed a wikipedia page."
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