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:“JavaScript is not a functional language because it does not have pure functions, immutable data structures, a type system, or good parameter-handling features. It has lambdas but so does VB 9.”

However you then proceeded to mark [[D]] as being functional despite that not having pure functions or consistently immutable data structures either. (The points about a type system are arguable — that's better handled on a different characterization axis IMO — and if you're going to argue that parameter handling is the marker of a functional language then I'll mock you mercilessly.) As such, you're being inconsistent; whether or not a language is in a category has got to be distinct from whether or not you approve of it. For the record, I think that JavaScript probably belongs in a similar category to [[Lisp]] or [[Scheme]]; it's only the syntax and the libraries that are really all that different. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 15:50, 31 December 2010 (UTC)