A type of ProgrammingLanguage, based loosely on the LambdaCalculus approach to computer science. FunctionalLanguages? make the distinction that everything (or near everything) is a function. They often lend to recursion more than iteration. Some examples of FunctionalLanguages? are:
Programmers generally choose to code in ImperativeLanguages? as they find these easier to make practical applications. It has been theorised that this is because most people learn languages such as C++, BASIC, Java, etc. first and only learn FunctionalLanguages? later, never really learning to think like a functional programmer. Perhaps if more programmers were taught to think in a functional style from their infancy we would see more applications written in FunctionalLanguages?. Then again, maybe it is just easier to write a useful program in Python.
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