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Screwtape Letter #32: Is Go a Functional Programming Language?
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7 points
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timtadh
on Feb 9, 2011
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nickik
on Feb 9, 2011
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Stupid article yes we know that go has proper closures but that dosn't make it a "Functional Language". It allows you to write in a functional style but FP is about imutability to. Go uses points that about as unfunctional as you can get.
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