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From: | Matt Wette |
Subject: | Re: Logo baseline |
Date: | Sun, 19 Jan 2020 06:59:17 -0800 |
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On 1/19/20 6:11 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:Other adjectives I proposed (fast, functional) don’t quite apply to these, though.Functional doesn’t apply to Guile much better than to CPython.
I think "functional" is used in the formal sense.The term applies to Scheme, Haskell, SML: e.g., they iterate through recursion. Python, Lua, Perl, Javascript are imperative: e.g., they iterate through i=i+1.
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