Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt on Sat, Jun 07, 2003: > "Andre E. Bar'yudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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.
No, I meant "functional" as opposed to OO and other paradigms. But why is Pascal not a full fledged functional language, and what is the definition of one? (Examples of such languages are welcome as well.) Awaiting enlightenment, Vadik. -- All things considered, insanity may be the only reasonable alternative. ================================================================= 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]
