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For questions relating to teaching the functional programming paradigm. A few examples of languages which support this paradigm are Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, Racket, OCaml, Clojure, ML, and Erlang.

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How to answer "functional programming is useless"?

I think the real trick is in teaching the value of Functional Programming rather than trying to teach the value of Functional Programming Languages. The latter will fail the pragmatic approach in alm …
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