Functional Programming Languages
Discussions center on the distinction between functional programming as a style versus functional programming languages, their features like purity and immutability, and comparisons to languages like Haskell, Lisp, Python, and JavaScript.
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It's more functional than most languages called "functional".
... for functional programming languages, I suppose.
Maybe there is a difference between functional programming and functional programming languages.
A language that actually cares about functional programming.
Yes. The website beats around the bush before stating that actually most functional programming languages are just like this (possibly more interesting too, shh).
Are functional languages more computer science than imperative languages?
No functional programming languages? (Except for the bit in Python.)
Are you proposing functional programming? There's plenty of examples of languages going that route (including languages with varying levels of compromise on 'pure' functionality for performance).
I meant of the functional languages
Functional or imperative language?