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From: dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Final CFP: State in Programming Languages
Date: 15 Sep 1994 17:26:08 GMT
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In article <REDDY.94Sep14233849@reddy.cs.uiuc.edu>, reddy@cs.uiuc.edu (Uday S. Reddy) writes:
|> Programming languages have been state-based since their inception.
|> After a period of relative unpopularity, when research focused on
|> declarative languages, interest in the treatment of state has been
|> renewed.  Research is increasingly devoted to finding a symbiotic
|> relationship between the semantic foundations of declarative languages
|> and the pragmatic handling of state in more conventional languages.
|> This workshop brings together researchers from various areas,
|> interested in the common issues of state manipulation in high-level
|> programming languages.
|> 

I have been out of college for over 5 years now, so my edu-computereese
is a little rusty. Could someone explain to me the concept of "state" 
as was used in this post?

T.E.D.
dennison@romulus.orl.mmc.com