"Andre E. Bar'yudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
> > >Pascal. I would never dream of writing a real program in Pascal, > > >but it's a good functional programming language for students, one > > >of the reason being that the student can concentrate on learning > > >concepts instead of fighting with pointers and memory allocation > > >when it's not needed. > > > > I've studied Pascal in school (it's the standard language for 5 points CS) > > - since when is it a functional language? Does it have features > > not taught in school or did I miss something? :-) > > Well, Pascal has an ability to regard functions as legal arguments for > other functions. In general, however, Pascal doesn't qualify to be > called a full fledged functional programming language, of course. My indignation flared up too, but then I thought that "functional" probably meant "viable" in the context. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
