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qwertyuiop924 · on Aug 25, 2016

Don't mock me. And yes, I did mean the notion of mathematical value and variable. That's one of the core tenets of both.

catnaroek · on Aug 25, 2016

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qwertyuiop924 · on Aug 25, 2016

They are somewhat close in paradigm: They both favor declarativism, and have mathematical values. Given, they're pretty far apart in paradigm, but those are some strong similarities.

catnaroek · on Aug 25, 2016

> declarativism

I'm not familiar with that term. Could you give a rigorous definition?

Anyway, after some googling, I found a very plausible definition that makes functional programming not a declarative paradigm: http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-declarative...