You can do functional fine with a more verbose language (e.g. rust allows for assignment with the result of an if statement), this is just a design choice of the language.
Having a more verbose language is not inherently bad nor are if statements not part of a proper functional language.
Is the problem with the functional paradigm, is less semantic in comparation with oop.
You can do functional fine with a more verbose language (e.g. rust allows for assignment with the result of an if statement), this is just a design choice of the language.
Having a more verbose language is not inherently bad nor are if statements not part of a proper functional language.
Yep, most fp langs consider if statements simple expressions, so you can pass the results around