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in reply to Re^5: pissed off about functional programming
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Maybe you'd like to give us some examples of un-functional high level languages?

Ruby? Lisp? Smalltalk? Perl? Pop-11? Eiffel? Javascript?

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Re^7: pissed off about functional programming
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 26, 2005 at 17:14 UTC
    So you're saying Lisp, Perl, and Javascript don't support functions as first class values? Or maybe you're claiming that higher-order functions aren't commonly used in those languages?
      So you're saying Lisp, Perl, and Javascript don't support functions as first class values? Or maybe you're claiming that higher-order functions aren't commonly used in those languages?

      No. I'm claiming that none of those languages would normally be called a functional language in the same category as O'Caml, Haskell, etc. - which was what I thought we were talking about.