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somethingsimple on June 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is Symbolic Computation?

It's a multi-paradigm language. You can use it for functional programming, but it's not strictly a functional programming language.

jwdunne on June 30, 2016 [–]

Yes. In fact, the point with symbols and code as data is that you can implement different paradigms in the language itself. A program implementing prolog, for instance, is an example program in books.

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