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Is there any algorithm needs functional language exclusively to be implemented

I'm a C# developer and I don't have enough information about functional languages,

My question that is there any algorithm needs functional language exclusively to be implemented?

Regards.

Solution

  • As long as a language is Turing complete, any algorithm can be implemented in it (by definition of "algorithm"). But as others have said, functional languages can do certain things more elegantly. (Just take a look at Haskell. What a lovely language.) I'd also argue that there is a class of problems that OOP languages do better. (In my opinion, GUIs, although some may disagree.)