On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > Just a small remark: > > >Pascal. I would never dream of writing a real program in Pascal, > >but it's a good functional programming language for students, one > >of the reason being that the student can concentrate on learning > >concepts instead of fighting with pointers and memory allocation > >when it's not needed. > > I've studied Pascal in school (it's the standard language for 5 points CS) > - since when is it a functional language? Does it have features not taught > in school or did I miss something? :-)
Well, Pascal has an ability to regard functions as legal arguments for other functions. In general, however, Pascal doesn't qualify to be called a full fledged functional programming language, of course. Regards, Andre. -- Andre E. Bar'yudin Home page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~baryudin/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
