On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 11:41:31AM -0400, Parrot Raiser wrote: > I suspect that "methods" were originally distinguished from > "subroutines" because it made the rain-dance about the new cure for > all civilisation's ills and the heartbreak of psoriasis, > Object-Oriented Programming, look more impressive. After one has seen > a few programming religions launched, the similarities blur the > differences. Profundity through obscurity always helps the marketing, > because it slows the recognition.
That... is only if you look at methods purely from an imperative and procedural programming perspective :) Once you start thinking about message passing or events, things get a little weirder :) > Subroutines are blocks of code that can be used anywhere within a > scope that may be global or local. Methods are a subset of subroutines > that can only be used within a particular scope on particular kinds of > things. ...or so it is in procedural languages, which have their orientation towards procedures (another name for subroutines) encoded right there in the designation :) But that's a wholly different topic, we've abused this thread's subject too much already, so I'll stop now :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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