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Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?         

Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Jon Harrop
Date: Sep 19, 2008 16:46

namekuseijin wrote:
> On Sep 19, 9:51 am, Slobodan Blazeski gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sep 19, 11:42 am, Benjamin L. Russell Yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> Purely functional is a misnomer, the better name would be langauges
>> who lack assignment.
>
> Any language can do that by either using just single assignment or
> function evaluation.

Not without loss of expressiveness, IIRC.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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