Re:Beautiful JavaScript – Functional JavaScript
by Touche on Sunday December 25, 2016 @07:37PM
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People don't overlook it, it's not a fundamental property of functional programming.
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Re:Beautiful JavaScript – Functional JavaScript
by smallnamespace on Sunday December 25, 2016 @08:57PM
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But by that metric, you could call assembly a functional programming language and not be incorrect either.
There's a core set of features that FP languages implement so that people can be productive, and rich and expressive types certainly seems a key component.