On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Rico Moorman <rico.moor...@gmail.com>wrote:

> We should first examine the merits and limitations of the traditional
>> approach: using
>> functions as a basis for the architecture of software systems. This will
>> not only lead us to
>>
>

> Because you both have more experience with this piece of literature, how
> would you interpret it? With a grain of salt or would function really mean
> procedure from the viewpoint of the author?
>

"Procedures".  They're coming at it from the standpoint of C / Algol /
Pascal, where "functions" are more or less your only real way to organize
code; not talking about functional programming.

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