Functional programming

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aliases: [Functional programming language, Functional programming languages, Functional language]
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created: 2022-07-10 22:26:50
modified: 2022-07-10 22:29:53

In functional programming languages, we base our programs on structured function calls. A functional program is an expression consisting of a function call which calls other functions in turn:

<function1>(<function2>(<function3> ...) ...))

This is known as composition or nesting.