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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:41:28 -0700 (PDT), Martin wrote:

> I've nothing against functional languages (my thesis used SML/
> NJ)...but I'm afraid your making assertions about Ada that just aren't
> true...

Huh, there is nothing wrong in criticizing functional abstractions like
first-class functions etc, or at least in questioning whether a primitive
operation should be considered an object and in which sense exactly. I have
my reservations about functionality of functional abstractions. (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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