In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Dembinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:02:42 +0200, André Roberge
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>> Imperative programming languages are the most commonly used languages.
>> Examples of this type of language are C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Algol, Java,
>> Python, Perl, and so on.
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>How about lambda construction? Isn't Python imperative language that
>includes some functional mixins?
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>I mean -- can you say Python is fully imperative language?
I don't know that "fully imperative" is necessarily meaningful.
We could say that Python supports statements which don't rebind a
variable to a value, but that doesn't seem helpful. You can do
things without side effects in Python, and you can use things in
a functional style like map, but the overall language more closely
reflects an imperative style, so we call it an imperative language.
Gary Duzan
BBN Technologies
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