On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:17:42PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.1443 +0100]: | > what do you mean by "functional"? even though i have quite limited | > experience with it, i've certainly seen plugins for the GIMP and | > things written in it. Or maybe that was scheme. | | while C is an imperative language, Erlang is a functional or | procedural language. (correct me if i am wrong, folks).
"imperative" and "procedural" are the same thing, and C is a prime
example. It is such because the structure of a C program is a
collection of procedures which start with "main". Each procedure is a
linear list of statements to be executed in order.
| it has no loops, assignments, variables or whatever.
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| Since Lisp is very similar, I was wondering if it's also "functional"...
Lisp is "functional". The functional paradigm is based entirely on
functions. A function receives some input values (arguments) and
returns some value. It is based heavily on discrete mathmatics and
recursion.
The other two categories of programming languages are OO
(object-oriented) and Logic. Python, C++ and Java are OO languages.
Prolog is a logic based language.
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