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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!open-news-network.org!uucp.gnuu.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <101bf8f3-b823-45ee-9afd-40cbafb4b7a9@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com> <774c25c4-3270-4ffb-ad19-366a0ab16659@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <84972d86-4850-4234-9224-ded8d12baf3b@b4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:45:45 +0200 Message-ID: <875done36srz$.mfu4cwmujuu2$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Jul 2010 15:45:45 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 81ef48d2.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=Ng3@KkAlSCGC4i^e1BZ=_HA9EHlD;3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA8kF0UYmQHTLJC X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12285 Date: 2010-07-09T15:45:45+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:21:07 -0700 (PDT), Marco wrote: > Agreed - it is either a function that returns a value or a procedure > that can manipulate state not both Function manipulates the state of its result. (Stateless computing is a fiction) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de