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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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harrismh777 wrote:

>   ... and I'm also lumping two other languages into this 'category'... 
> namely, Scheme, and Erlang.

Scheme isn't really a functional language, though. You can
use a subset of it in a functional way, but it doesn't have
the sort of built-in support for pattern matching and case
analysis that true functional languages tend to have.

As families of languages go, Scheme has more in common with
Python than Haskell.

-- 
Greg