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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:25:27 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: some trivial questions? Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:25:26 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <6a5368c5-f015-4dcb-9291-e77b40fa1bf1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.176.15 X-Trace: sv3-g2PZ00xidmNZZf8KdfV1tNWHuKymgy7YtSvI29FoHEB6r12PpQMQmxB8oHFo4NF4N6sHyiOLU3dqf0J!YQMLm3M0tKJtx58PGU4uZSEt7CtFoOLK84NwvvBGWEdN9Hyj9XALgPvESmDSk1dQMp/yaGXPoFUY!5CI0A3YT8lMe4f7hlszxoxxR3aU= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1828 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48754 Date: 2017-11-06T21:25:26-05:00 List-Id: On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:37:31 -0500, Robert A Duff declaimed the following: >Not really. I'd prefer that both things be called "procedure". >Then we wouldn't need the terms "function" and "subprogram". >But we'd still need a distinction between procedures that >return a value and those that don't. > Back when I learned FORTRAN (F-IV), both were "subprograms", differentiated as "function subprogram" and "subroutine subprogram". These days, I'd probably replace "subroutine" with "procedure", but leave both as the category of "subprogram". -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/