bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > It _can_ be used as a pure functional language. An interpreter for a > > pure-functional subset of LISP can be written > > And ?
You will have a functionally pure dialect of a very useful language that makes it impossible to write pretty much anything of use :) Although if you do manage to get something working, it's pretty much guaranteed to work correctly due to the fact to purely functional programs being very close to mathematical proofs...at least in theory and assuming your language has no bugs. Imperative programming is mathematics with state; functional programming *is* mathematics. -- burton samograd kruhft .at. gmail kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
