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the functional programming challenges have a very weird selection of available languages: Scala, Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Ocaml, Lisp, F#. not the most popul

• dnissley 12y ago
  What are they missing?
  • pacofvf 12y ago
    https://docs.python.org/2/howto/functional.html https://docs.python.org/2/howto/functional.html
• pekk 12y ago
  functional programming languages are not the most popular languages.
  • angersock 12y ago
    Eh, Javascript seems to be doing alright for itself.
    • frowaway001 12y ago
      Since when is JavaScript functional?
      • _broody 12y ago
        It's not functional in the same vein as Haskell, but it is in the same vein as a lisp. Essentially, JS is an application of the lambda calculus.
        • frowaway001 12y ago
          The family of Lisps isn't functional by definition. There are Lisps which are as non-functional as one could imagine. Anyway, where the hell are you seeing the lambda calculus in JavaScript (ignoring that "it's based on lambda calculus" is probably as useful as "computers usually work with 0s and 1s")?
• owenversteeg 12y ago
  Not surprising - Haskell and Lisps are the most popular functional programming language. Aside from Dylan, J or Scheme, I can't think of anything else to add. You might be able to make an argument to add is ES6 with a pile of additions to Function.prototype, but FP in JS isn't as natural as other languages.