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PURELY FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

Specialty Definition: PURELY FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Purely functional language A functional language with no side-effects. Program execution consists of evaluation of an expression and all subexpressions are referentially transparent. (1996-07-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Math

A language that does not allow any destructive operation---one which overwrites data---such as the assignment operation. Purely functional languages are free of side effects, i.e., invoking a function has no effect other than computing the value returned by the function. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PURELY FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

Specialty definitions using "PURELY FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE": HASLpure functional language, Pure Lisp. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: PURELY FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 55 52 45 4C 59      46 55 4E 43 54 49 4F 4E 41 4C      4C 41 4E 47 55 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010101 01010010 01000101 01001100 01011001 00100000 01000110 01010101 01001110 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#85 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#89 &#32 &#70 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0055 0052 0045 004C 0059      0046 0055 004E 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E 0041 004C      004C 0041 004E 0047 0055 0041 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50555239465924055483754434948354624635484155354139

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INDEX

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2. Orthography
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