Functional languages

foundations in lambda calculus

Examples of functional languages are:

scala
lisp
scheme
SML
Erlang
Haskell
OCaml
F#

Principles:

Functions are values (like integers, strings, etc) they can be stored as variables, passed and returned as values to other functions etc.
Changing variables and input/output inside functions is seen as a side effect and should be minimised.

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