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> SML has many of those features

So does Java in 2020, but I was writing about:

>> it feels really weird that now is fashionable to assert that Haskell === FP

When Googling "functional programming", you get back pages of definitions emphasising "pure functions", "no side-effects", "mathematical functions", "avoiding shared state", "referential transparency". So what Haskell provides is what the blogosphere has been labeling as "functional programming" for a decade. Those definitions could be wrong, but they're the definitions that are floating around out there.




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