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Re:Teenage Haskell by marcosdumay on Saturday June 28, 2014 @09:09AM (#7958100)
> without being able to state any specific steps how to do it

All functional languages can express a sequence of steps. More yet, on most of them you can later decide to transform the sequence, instead of just generating code from it.

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Re:Teenage Haskell by seanmcdirmid on Saturday June 28, 2014 @10:23AM (#7958266)
As can be done in a procedural language also (and a technique that I use often).
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