Talk:Functional programming
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Have done initial merge with Nupedia article. Still needs work, esp. the section "functional programming" needs to be merged into main (new) text. -- Lexor 03:30, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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Nice work
Thanks for the good effort.
First Example
The article describes the first implemented functional language as IPL, and then later as LISP. This is an inconsistency.
Contrast
The article contrasts Functional Programming to Imperative Programming, yet in the Programming Paradigm article Functional Programming is contrasted by Procedural Programming. Imperative Programming and Procedural Programming are orthoganal. This is an inconsistency.
- First of all, this need not be inconsistent. 3 or more concepts can be in contrast with each other. For example, you could contrast 3 political parties against each other. However, in this case, we must first define what distinguishes Procedural and Imperative programming. Only then we can decide whether we should contrast this article with either or both. --Raboof 11:46, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
XQuery
Look at XQuery also as another example