A brief history of functional programming
A brief historical overview of the roots of functional programming
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Functional programming is on everyone’s lips and concepts from functional programming are being adopted everywhere in imperative languages. At the moment I am also taking a closer look at these concepts and would like to publish my findings here in the form of a series of articles. But let’s start with a short historical review.