On 16 February 2013 00:12, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > With this definition, all programming is "functional programming", and > there's no distinction between "imperative programming" and > "functional programming".
This 'conclusion' of yours is logically fallacious. > At this point, I think I will refer you to wikipedia At this point, rather than quoting general, summary statements from a source of disputable credibility, you should have better taken into account that the vast majority of the so called functional languages (J included) are not purely functional, and that, for a number of reasons, their functions are not at all 'mathematical functions'. The latter holds even of those several languages conventionally described as 'purely functional'. Now, is there a reason for you to jump with totally irrelevant remarks at more or less each of my (rare) posts in these forums? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
