From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-07-14T15:42:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Ruby (Re: Why I don't use Ruby.)

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@activehitconsulting.com> wrote:
> In University, I worked with a language called Turing that had both 
> procedures and functions.  Is that a common idiom?

BBC Basic (and, I believe, several other BASIC dialects) had this - I
think it's a distinction that has mostly died out in modern languages.

martin