Is it possible to give an explanation of functional programming without using factorial or fibonacci as an example?
@valleyforge do you mean recursion based on the two examples you provided (factorial and Fibonacci)? Functional programming is not just limited to recursive functions and is a declarative programming paradigm:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
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@sojournTime recursion is a great example of functional programming and those are great examples of recursion so they tend to get used in intros to functional programming
@valleyforge Mergesort is also an excellent example of recursion.
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