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immad
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How to Ace a Startup Engineering Interview Part 1
Edit: I meant to say functional not pure functional. Blog post changed.
Ralith
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I question your qualification to advise people on interviews if your own theory knowledge tops out at "casually skimmed a wikipedia page."
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He's making the distinction between saying a language is "functional" versus "pure functional." It is not correct to classify Lisp and Erlang as pure functional languages, because they both include support for imperative style programming.
DanWaterworth
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional
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