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Re:What is a functional programming language? by jmillikin on Thursday July 23, 2009 @05:28PM (#720405)
Functional languages are defined using the Lambda calculus. Imperative languages are defined as a model of the Turing machine.

The implementation details, such as the in-memory format of integers, are irrelevant to the language.

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