> On 18 Apr 2015, at 13:06, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > At 12:55 18/04/2015 +0100, Michael Hendry wrote: >> I think it was Pascal that introduced a distinction between a Procedure >> (which does something without returning a value) and a Function (which does >> something AND returns a value). > > Really?! > > Pascal: published 1970 > Fortran II (included SUBROUTINE and FUNCTION): published 1958.
I’m obviously not old enough! (Actually I’m so old I forgot to engage my brain before speaking!). M > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_%28programming_language%29 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_II > > Brian Barker _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
