31 Jul
2020
31 Jul
'20
6:54 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:36 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Amen to that. Me too, I tried functional languages and my head hurt. C
seems so natural to me.
IMO impure functional languages like Common Lisp, ML, Scheme, and the
somewhat ironically named Pure language are straightforward extensions of
imperative programming: you can make your code less imperative without
being completely deprived of it. All of these are tail-recursive (formally
CL is not, but most implementations are) which means that recursive loops
become non-recursive gotos, and for/do-loops wind up being pure without you
noticing.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
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Egyptians worshiped an insect. --Benjamin Disraeli