Expression-oriented programming language: Difference between revisions

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| accessdate = 2010-04-17}}</ref> that do not have this problem, such as <code>''variable'' ← ''expression''</code> in [[APL (programming language)|APL]], <code>''variable'' <- ''expression''</code> in [[Objective CamlOCaml]], [[S (programming language)|S]], and [[R (programming language)|R]], or <code>(setq ''variable'' ''expression'')</code> in [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] and [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]]. Furthermore, many expression-oriented languages are also functional languages. In these languages, assignment is either rare, or, in the case of [[purely functional]] languages, impossible.

==See also==