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ARTICLES RELATED TO Functional programming - Introduction | | | |  Functional programming - Introduction: Encyclopedia II - Functional programming - IntroductionMathematical functions have great strengths in terms of flexibility and analysis. For example, if a function is known to be idempotent, then a call to a function which has its own output as its argument, and which is known to have no side-effects, may be efficiently computed without multiple calls.
A function in this sense has zero or more parameters and a single return value. The parameters—or arguments, as they are sometimes called—are the inputs to the function, and the return value is the function's output. The definition of a ...
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| | | | Functional programming - Introduction: Encyclopedia II - Functional programming - Functional languages The oldest example of a functional language is Lisp, though neither the original LISP nor modern Lisps such as Common Lisp are pure-functional. Lisp variants include Logo, Scheme, Dylan. The modern canonical examples are Haskell and members of the ML family including SML and OCaml. Others include Erlang, Clean, and Miranda. A third type of a commonly used functional language is Xslt. Another subset is the mathematics languages Maple and Mathematica.
Some computer languages, for example Tcl, Perl, Python & Ruby, can also be used in a functional style, ...
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| | | | Functional programming - Introduction: Encyclopedia II - Functional programming - Comparison with imperative programming Functional programming can be contrasted with imperative programming. Functional programming appears to be missing several constructs often (though incorrectly) considered essential to an imperative language such as C or Pascal. For example, in strict functional programming, there is no explicit memory allocation and no explicit variable assignment. However, these operations occur automatically when a function is invoked: memory allocation occurs to create space for the parameters and the return value, and assignment occurs to copy the param ...
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