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by _russross 1697 days ago
It seems like modern languages adopt more and more ideas from functional programming as time goes by (garbage collection, closures and higher-order functions, parametric polymorphism, immutable values, algebraic types). Modern languages designed for general-purpose use are mostly hybrids, and the functional influence has been steadily growing over the decades.

What influence has Forth had?