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I believe there have been functional programming contests where the language used by the winners was the functional subset of C, which as you would expect includes C functions.

But the term "FP" is as much about freedom from side effects, lambdas, currying, and sometimes lazy evaluation as it is about the superficially-similar functions in a typical imperative language.




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