# What Is Functional Programming? - Kris Jenkins' Blog

<http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/12/what-is-functional-programming.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

This is my take on what functional programming really is, in a way that will make sense to a jobbing programmer just trying to Get Stuff Done.

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