From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T14:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Functional Programming? (was Re: Lazy evaluaton)

In article <20051003043114.GA20989@peaches-en-regalia>, ef@alum.mit.edu 
says...
> Indeed, functional programming is almost the *opposite* of procedural.
> In a procedural program, most lines are executed for their side
> effects.  In a functional program, most lines are executed for their
> value.

Thanks for summing this up so wonderfully.  

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