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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 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:08:48 -0300, Cesar Rabak wrote:

> Colin Paul Gloster escreveu:
>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Jon Harrop wrote:
>> 
>>|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
>>|"Colin Paul Gloster wrote:                                            |
>>|> No, it is not contrived. Unlike a functional language in which every|
>>|> so-called variable is actually constant...                          |
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>>|*Purely* functional, perhaps?"                                        |
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>> 
>> If something is not purely functional then it is not functional. If
> 
> Colin, if you take this reasoning then Ada is not OO. . .

But it could become OO. While no language can ever become functional, since
"functionally" the only reason for a computer to exist is to produce
non-functional side effects....

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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