Re: What is a functional language? (Was: Re: Functional languages and ... (was: Cryptarithm solver ...))

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 04:57:58PM +0100, D. Tweed wrote:
> Firstly let me check that we mean the same thing by _higher order
> functions, namely they are functions which return functions

... or take functions as parameters.  Such as map, foldr, iterate, etc.

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