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> all of these things have ideas and features directly drawn from functional programming

golang is the complete opposite of that, they disregarded useful research with unsubstantiated claims and it's just a basic procedural language with some concurrency, that's it.

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You kind of forget the fact that the language has first class functions. That alone qualifies it as a functional programming language in every sense of the MF word. It also has interface and (like you mention CSP). Its more than a strictly procedural language. I'm afraid I am going to have to standby what I said.

By that argument, C# is a functional programming language, so is Python, and maybe even C.

Yes, they are. Its not the dominate paradigm and you wouldn't want to program them that way, but that's my point.

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