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Since it has been mentioned in here a few times, I've become curious about learning functional programming (specifically Lisp or O'Caml). However, my half-hearted attempts so far have not helped me ...

Answer by Keith Adams, Computer programmer at Facebook, on Quora, If you're doing it for the purpose of learning, get thee to Haskell. It takes the paradigm to its logical conclusion. I found Haskell ...

A: The comp.lang.functional FAQ describes functional programming this way: “Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the evaluation of expressions, rather than execution of ...