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Functional languages were designed to represent the formal operations required to compute in a way that could be made elegant by a designer. There is a beauty in a representation that can capture an idea in both its form and its expressiveness.
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Addis, T., Addis, J. (2010). In Pursuit of Elegance. In: Drawing Programs: The Theory and Practice of Schematic Functional Programming. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-618-2_3
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