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Re:What is a functional programming language? by primodemus on Friday January 14, 2011 @09:16AM (#2103509)
If we define a functional language as a language based on the lambda calculus, then whether it has first-class functions or not is not completely orthogonal since functions are values in the lambda calculus.
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