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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: comp.lang.functional
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Date: 26 Feb 90 17:00:02 GMT
References: <1619@husc6.harvard.edu> <1797@skye.ed.ac.uk> <5144@brazos.Rice.edu> <1816@skye.ed.ac.uk> <4626@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <4626@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> kh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond) writes:
>In mathematics, a functional is  a higher-order function.  I don't see
>how  a  language wo HOFs  can really be described  as functional!  But
>that's "just" terminology.

You have to distinguish between "functional" used as an adjective and
"functional" used as a noun.  Functional languages don't have to
provide functionals.  Of course, you might have meant it as a joke.