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by Horusiath 630 days ago
Most of these points are related to strict type system. If that was the case, then Lisp wouldn't be functional programming language.

IMO the first and foremost principle of Functional Programming languages is that they are optimised around building programs in terms of function composition. And anyone who had to work with borrow checker and closures for 5sec knows, that this is not the case for Rust.
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frogulis 630 days ago
I think you've taken it backwards. The comment you were replying to is listing features that lead to robustness (many of which appear in strongly-typed functional languages in the ML family), not essential aspects of functional programming languages.
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__s 630 days ago
Indeed. I was listing the specific items the article (titled 'Why is F# code so robust and reliable? ') lists. Functional programming languages only came up to reject someone suggesting Rust as a language that can be included as robust/reliable in the context of the article's reasons for F# being robust/reliable
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kazinator 629 days ago
Lisp is a family of languages, most of which are not functional.
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