> i'd argue that closures don't mix well with the c style of programming > > eg if you add closures then you'd need anonymous functions then you'd > start writing in the functional style passing around functions then > you'd need memory management to clean up the return values and > arguments (so you can write print(sum(map(atoi, > split(read(filename)))))) and of course exception handling as return > values have different purpose, not to mention multiple return values > and sometime polymorphism is required as well with a bit more powerful > type system with possible runtime dispatch oh and don't forget about > module systems... this is all agreeable, but as some nitpicking i'd say that you don't need exceptions; you can use monads/function combinators instead ;)
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