(though not purely functional, assome more recent languages are), meaning that programs are expressed in terms that are simple elaborations or extensions of thelambda calculus, a formal mathematical model of computation. This gives programs written in functional languages such as Lisp a distinctively...
The joke is that the Creator, like many software developers, was a bit rushed and chose to quickly throw together a working prototype rather than do the job right from the beginning; concurrently, that Cueball, thinking he has discovered an amazing and beautiful secret in the hidden world of...