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From: "Charles D. Hixson" <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Looking for Ada Technique Name and References
Date: 2000/02/28
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Jon S Anthony wrote:
  -- snip

> Any language that directly supports higher order functions supports
> such definitions (any functional language, e.g., Common Lisp or Scheme).
>
>

  -- snip

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Also some not-so-functional languages, like Python, have constructs that
support this.  And since C supports pointers to functions, I suppose that
one could implement it in C.  And speaking of pointers to functions,
doesn't Ada95 ...