| Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming? |
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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Jon HarropJon Harrop Date: Sep 19, 2008 16:46
namekuseijin wrote:
> On Sep 19, 9:51Â am, Slobodan Blazeski gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sep 19, 11:42Â am, Benjamin L. Russell Yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> Purely functional is a misnomer, the better name would be langauges
>> who lack assignment.
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> Any language can do that by either using just single assignment or
> function evaluation.
Not without loss of expressiveness, IIRC.
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