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Re: Logo baseline
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Arne Babenhauserheide |
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Re: Logo baseline |
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Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:40:09 +0100 |
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Matt Wette <address@hidden> writes:
> On 1/19/20 6:11 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Other adjectives I proposed (fast, functional) don’t quite apply to
>>> these, though.
>> Functional doesn’t apply to Guile much better than to CPython.
>
> I think "functional" is used in the formal sense.
> The term applies to Scheme, Haskell, SML: e.g., they iterate through
> recursion.
Is this also true for the do-loop in Scheme?
> Python, Lua, Perl, Javascript are imperative: e.g., they iterate
> through i=i+1.
That is a result of missing tail recursion.
I understood functional in the no-sideeffects sense — which nowadays is
more a matter of programming style than of the language, though
different languages make it easier or harder.
Best wishes,
Arne
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