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This language specific section does not have enough merit to be included as it only states the capabilities and limitations of one language and will only encourage a host of other language specific entries. It is better to delete it. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 21:45, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
:Agreed, but it may still be worth noting that in languages (e.g. Algol 68, C, C#) which treat functions as values (passing them to and returning them from functions, assigning them to variables and inside data structures) without being able to create new function bodies at runtime (lacking ''eval''), higher order functions such as function composition can still be used to create new functions at runtime. [[User:Rp|Rp]] ([[User talk:Rp|talk]]) 22:42, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
== Language support breakdown of languages by taxonomy is misleading and irrelevant ==
Language support for first class functions should not present a table grouping languages by family. It is not relevant to the topic but it is vague and at best arguable. Furthermore the specific taxonomy used is neither accurate nor intuitive with respect to first class functions. For example, one category is C Family and another is Scripting, while another is Functional.
I suggest we remove the taxonomy from table and restructure the section.
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