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| From | "Nils M Holm" <nmh@t3x.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) |
| Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2014 02:19:48 -0400 (EDT) |
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Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> writes: > > But Smalltalk, for which development started in 1969, was a very early > > functional object-oriented language. > > Smalltalk is an imperative language; e.g., it contains assignment and > its objects contain changeable state. What makes you think that > Smalltalk is functional? While I would agree that Smalltalk is not intended to be a functional language, I think the argument of assignment and mutable state is not valid. In "The Definition of Standard ML", Milner, et al describe ML as a functional language "in the sense that the full power of mathematical functions is present". IMO, this property is sufficient to classify a language as "functional". Even SML does have mutable state (references) and assignment, BTW. -- Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > www.t3x.org [Does that make python functional? -John]
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Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) "Nils M Holm" <nmh@t3x.org> - 2014-09-20 02:19 -0400
Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-09-21 13:40 +0000
Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-09-21 14:28 +0000
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