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Article #527Re: Which language to teach first?
From: Dave Berry
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1989 10:52
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1989 10:52
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In article <741@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>a functional language might just be a subset of a procedural one
>(think of Standard ML, for example, or Lisp).
A functional language is a language that has functions as first class values.
An imperative or procedural language is one that supports (re-)assignment.
Languages that support both are not subsets of either style; they are hybrids.
Dave Berry, Laboratory for Foundations db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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