Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > I can go on, but you get the idea. Point is: functional programmint > isn't "nothing but calling functions".
I would mainly describe functional programming as programming with the pervasive use of higher order functions. For example, loops in functional programming can be implemented using recursion, but in practice, one doesn't see actual explicit recursion in Haskell code all that often. Instead we see wide use of functions like map, filter, and fold (a/k/a "reduce"), which can take the place of looping constructs. Python also has higher-order functions like that, but their use is disfavored in certain circles. With Python 3, there has actually been movement towards removing them from the language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
