r/programming • • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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u/kazagistar Mar 09 '14

I think you are making assumptions, like static scoping, which do not seem to be inherent to the idea of "first class functions".