> “Back in the day” a language got called ‘functional’ if it had anonymous closures, upwards funargs, tail calls, you could implement a decent `reduce`, etc.
Back in the day, we talked about programming paradigms and whether or not a language supported them; we didn’t usually label languages by paradigm unless there was a fairly tight association of the paradigm with the language.
Back in the day, we talked about programming paradigms and whether or not a language supported them; we didn’t usually label languages by paradigm unless there was a fairly tight association of the paradigm with the language.