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What is the name for a NON-self-calling function?

I have a collection of normal functions and self-calling functions within a javascript file. In my comments i want to say something along the lines of "This script can contain both self-calling and ...
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Is Javascript a Functional Programming Language

Is Javascript a functional language? I know it has objects & you can do OOP with it also, but is it also a functional language, can it be used in that way? You know how OOP became/seems like the ...
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How to write manageable code with functional programming?

I just started with functional programming (with JavaScript and Node.js) and from the look of things it looks as if the code I am writing would grow to be one hell of a code base to manage, when ...
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Javascript, functional programming and parallel processing

When I use jquery library I notice that the code will continue execution regardless the previous line complete the execution. More precisely while using jquery ajax, it will continue execution without ...