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tux0r
  • What is the first functional programming language?

LISP!

Lisp is a multi-paradigm language, depending on the dialect. Common Lisp, for example, supports both imperative programming and OOP, but is not really functional.

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yucer

By the way, it is said that programming languages implement many paradigms to different extent.

And the winner multi-paradigm language seems to be Wolfram!

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Muhammed H. Alkan

As I didn't say it's PURELY FUNCTIONAL, it's still functional.