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Re: um, maybe this is a silly question

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From: Stan Webb
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:55
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In article <1b44g5INNqq1@agate.berkeley.edu>, bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
> The answer
> 		make "x 12
> is correct but really only answers part of the question.
> 

[ nice exposition on functional versus procedural programming deleted...]

BUT...

As one of those maligned C programmers (actually, I use C++ almost all the
time these days - hey, maybe he's not talking about me after all... :-),
I'm bothered by the casualness with which most FP people ignore the notion
of "state".

Oh well, never mind.  This discussion doesn't really belong here anyway.

Stan
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