Of what use is 'lambda'???

Sun Sep 24 14:55:42 EDT 2000

Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:

> I have a question.  What is the difference between functional
> programming and procedural programming?  I know I should know
> this, but...

To start with, in functional programming everything returns a value.

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