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Functional Programming

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Chapter 3 introduced assembly language which was a very prescriptive language. Certain operands had to be on the operand stack before an instruction could be executed. These details had to be dealt with even though the programmer was trying to solve a bigger problem than how to execute the next instruction.

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Lee, K.D. (2017). Functional Programming. In: Foundations of Programming Languages. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70790-7_5

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