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Re: Is Dylan a functional language?
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Is Dylan a functional language?
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From: Bruce Hoult <bruce@hoult.org>
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:00:02 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <3BC2532B.5030707@staffware-spokane.com>, Doug Hockin
<dhockin@staffware-spokane.com> wrote:
> Should Dylan show up in this list of functional languages?
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> http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Functional/
If Common Lisp and Scheme and OCaml are there (which they are) then
Dylan certainly should be too.
Like them Dylan has all the features needed to be used in a purely
functional style, but doesn't force you into programming that way.
-- Bruce
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