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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Jon Harrop wrote:

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|"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
something is not purely clean, then it is not clean. Sure, people do
describe something as being "cleaned" when not all dirt particles have
been banished from it, and people call languages which are not purely
functional "functional", but being called something and being that
something are different.