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Except that C isn't a HLL, it's assembly language. Your experiment would only substantiate his point.
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Re^5: pissed off about functional programming
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 25, 2005 at 17:23 UTC
    Of course you conveniently omitted your definition of HLL. Maybe you'd like to give us some examples of un-functional high level languages?
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      Maybe you'd like to give us some examples of un-functional high level languages?

      Ruby? Lisp? Smalltalk? Perl? Pop-11? Eiffel? Javascript?

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        So you're saying Lisp, Perl, and Javascript don't support functions as first class values? Or maybe you're claiming that higher-order functions aren't commonly used in those languages?
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