On Dec 3, 2009, at 20:03 , Matthias Görgens wrote:
When OO is about constructing a "machine" and talking about objects, and FP is about making little algebraic languages, what would C orPascal be like? In these languages, you don't think about objects, butyou don't think about an algebra either? It's been a very long timesince I worked with these languages, but as far as I recall, I startedthinking 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.
A Boehm GC library for C has been around for years. Nevertheless, I wouldn't call C-with-Boehm "functional programming".
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