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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/25
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On 25 Aug 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> > 
> >  Don't take away my assignment statements, Robert.  The help me write
> >  crisp, short code sentences that ordinary mortals can understand. In
> >  fact, as an old time Fortranner, I sometimes write a function that
> >  looks like,
> > 
> >        function F ( ... ) return some-data-type is
> >          Result : some-data-type := initial-value;
> >        begin
> >          Result := algorithmic-part;
> >          return Result;
> >        end F;
> 
> I think you misunderstand. Even purely functional languages like ML have

I think ML is what most FPers would call impure, since the MLs that I know 
of, SML and CAML, both have assignable references. ML is "functional" in 
that it has higher-order functions, but the designers of ML consciously 
included assignment. 

If you look closely, you can see a little bit of ML in Ada-95. 

-- Brian