Functional Programming in D

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Thu Oct 10 10:41:28 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 03:08 -0700, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[…]
> Note this is why I wrote "functional-style programming" w.r.t. D, rather
> than "functional programming". Clearly, what D has isn't "real"
> functional programming in the strict sense, but it does share similar
> characteristics when written in that style.

Indeed, I was trying to support that view. I think declarative rather than
functional-style is a better label for this since it avoids the functional vs
imperative paradigm conflict left over from the late 1980s and 1990s.
 
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