Comparison of functional programming languages
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Overview of Functional Programming Languages
| Pure | Lazy Evaluation | Typing | Abstract Data Types | Algebraic Data Types | Data is Immutable | Type Classes | Functors | Monads | Closures | |
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| Lisp | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Scheme | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Clojure | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| ML | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| OCaml | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| F# | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Haskell | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Scala | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Javascript | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example | Example |