> When OO is about constructing a "machine" and talking about objects, > and FP is about making little algebraic languages, what would C or > Pascal be like? In these languages, you don't think about objects, but > you don't think about an algebra either? It's been a very long time > since I worked with these languages, but as far as I recall, I started > thinking about data structures and procedures operating on these data > structures, which sounds a look like making ADTs and > functions/operations on these... So this sounds odd, because it would > mean that C and Pascal are in a sense closer to FP than OO is?
You are working with state all the time in C and Pascal. Perhaps a C with a garbage collector would be closer to FP, because you could construct new structures all the time without worrying about memory leaks. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
