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The best intro for functional programming, IMO, is Joel Spolsky's "Can your language do this" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html http://www.jo
by asattarmd 13y ago
The best intro for functional programming, IMO, is Joel Spolsky's "Can your language do this" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html).
- copx 13y agoEvery newer language can do "this". First class functions and anonymous functions have been a standard feature for a while. Does not mean that say Lua or Ruby are functional programming languages. If you just require the ability to pass around anonymous functions even C++ is a functional programming language these days. To meaningfully distinguish functional from imperative programming you have to add purity/immutable data to the definition at least.