From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 5b1e799cdb,3ef3e78eacf6f938 X-Google-Attributes: gid5b1e799cdb,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:56 -0500 From: Jon Harrop Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3? Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.programming Followup-To: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.programming Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:47:23 +0100 References: Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <0b6dnSIFZr9pAvXXnZ2dnUVZ8hSvnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-yMldGdZHRVg/U9ZDw0aNYpwRHJvj7KYX2PIB4whF1IId4mU1tMXMcE4BAITHuFKQzv3TCZ+4aK20Q9a!uFBhFC4o6QlRynSSZMfUuGovVoJUsLWQBgAkNZh9Hi4+dEoweiRuZUmjqF9Le9SNyY2OzxNFy2yP!wBlxfjP4hjkeV5+f+/hW/kIY X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 1737 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.eiffel:397 comp.lang.ada:7291 comp.programming:12003 Date: 2009-07-23T19:47:23+01:00 List-Id: Colin Paul Gloster wrote: > No, it is not contrived. Unlike a functional language in which every > so-called variable is actually constant... *Purely* functional, perhaps? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u