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On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:14:02 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody
<rustompmody@gmail.com> declaimed the following:


>Pascal ? C ? Python is a slide down because
>Pascal had the clear distinction of procedure and function

	That goes back to FORTRAN (in which one has SUBROUTINE subprocedures,
and FUNCTION subprocedures -- yes, that is how the standard document used
to define them), which quite predates Pascal. Strangely, the precursor to
Pascal -- ALGOL -- apparently used PROC for both procedures and functions.


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