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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> writes:

> Bonita Montero:
>
>> With C++11 you have lamdas as local functions.  Magnitudes
>> more elegant than you GOSUB-macro-orgy.
>
> Lambdas, being a functional concept, are alien to a
> procedural language.  The mixing of functional and procedural
> approaches makes a language discordant and more complicated
> both to understand and to implement in a complier. [...]

Even Algol had nested functions.