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From: kono@csl.sony.co.jp (Shinji Kono)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: The name of the game
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Date: 15 Apr 90 02:32:39 GMT
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In article <1818@majestix.ida.liu.se>  , JWC@IDA.LiU.SE (Jonas Wallgren)writes 
> 	1: No assignments, no side effects, referential transparency,
>            or whatever you call it.
> 	2: Higher order functions.

How about "Excluding Non-Determinism comming from parallel execution"?
Most Dataflow programming languages are functional, I think.
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