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		Screwtape Letter #32: Is Go a Functional Programming Language? (mprescient.com)
		7 points by timtadh on Feb 9, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

nickik on Feb 9, 2011 [–]

Stupid article yes we know that go has proper closures but that dosn't make it a "Functional Language". It allows you to write in a functional style but FP is about imutability to. Go uses points that about as unfunctional as you can get.

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