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What Is Functional Programming?

• rajman187 7y ago
  The author quotes a definition > A functional language is a language that supports and encourages programming in a functional style. Seems rather circular
  • hans1729 7y ago
    > Seems rather circular * recurrent seems more appropriate in this context :-)
  • DarkWiiPlayer 7y ago
    more than circular, it offloads the meaning to another term, which is the functional style. Just read a dictionary, you'll see this happen lots of time, where, for example, the definition of an adjective just references the definition of a related noun and that's it.