From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T09:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: functional programming "style"

Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@jenny-gnome.dyndns.org> writes:
> This seems to be a common misperception. Imperative, functional and
> object-oriented (OO) are merely axes on the language classification
> system (among them OO is the most ambigious term).

Strictly speaking, imperative, functional and object-oriented are
types of programming style, not types of language. I've seen
object-oriented C (and OO assembler, horrors) and imperative LISP. As
they say, "you can write FORTRAN in any language", it's just
relatively difficult in Smalltalk.

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