The h2g2 Functional Programming group

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When most people1 think of the term 'functional programming', their first thought is of languages like C or Pascal. Those languages that split their code into blocks that they term functions. That is a misnomer. That style of programming is called 'procedural' or 'structured' by the computer science community and the term 'functional' is reserved for another group of languages

This page is meant as a meeting point for all those people on h2g2 who are interested in functional programming, lambda calculus, formal syntax or semantics and, in general, learning the most powerful way of programming available today.

1That is those people who bother to think about things like this at all. Although, you are here and so, presumably, are one of those people.

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