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Functional programming is a programming paradigm that has one of its roots in the programming language LISP . LISP, which stands for LISt Processing, was created in 1958 by John McCarthy .
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Entscheidungsproblem is one of Hilbert’s mathematical problems.
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This definition is similar to the solution of Exercise 2.8, the internal product in Scala. In this case, Trans is translated to Scala in zip, \(\alpha \) x corresponds to a map of the product, and /+ that extends the addition for a pair of numbers to a sequence can be translated to Scala by fold.
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Torra, V. (2016). An Introduction to Functional Programming Languages. In: Scala: From a Functional Programming Perspective. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9980. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46481-7_1
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