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I have just started delving into the world of functional programming.
A lot of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts such as inheritance and polymorphism apply to most modern OO languages like C#, Java and VB.NET.
But how about concepts such as Map, Reduce, Tuples and Sets, do they apply to all FP (Functional Programming) languages?
I have just started with F#. But do aforementioned concepts apply to other FP like Haskell, Nemerle, Lisp, etc.?
You bet. The desirable thing about function programming is that the mathematical concepts you describe are more naturally expressed in an FP.
It’s a bit of tough going, but John Backus’ Turing Award paper in which he described functional (or ‘applicative’) programming is a good read. The Wikipedia article is good too.