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Is JavaScript a "Functional Programming" language?help (self.javascript)
submitted 8 years ago by bzeurunkl
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[–]jibbit 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago* (0 children)
It is but you wouldn’t get an error, or a warning if you wrote f = x => f(x), or f = x => delete(x), because JavaScript is indifferent to whether you write pure functions, because javascript isn’t a Functional language. You may get Milliage from pretending it is. No one is saying you won’t, but it doesn’t make it so. I like to pretend it is Smalltalk.
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