What is a functional programming language?

Re:What is a functional programming language? by antipax on Thursday July 23, 2009 @03:06PM (#720140)

Really enjoyed the explanation of how addition falls out of the lambda calculus, as I'd never seen that before.

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Re:What is a functional programming language? by ambulatorybird on Thursday July 23, 2009 @05:41PM (#720430)

You can also do sequencing (assuming applicative order) and conditionals:

  'a; b' ==> (fn x -> b) a

  true  = fn x -> fn y -> x
  false = fn x -> fn y -> y
  if    = fn p -> fn -> c -> fn a -> p c a

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