[TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:36 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

Amen to that.  Me too, I tried functional languages and my head hurt.  C
> seems so natural to me.
>

IMO impure functional languages like Common Lisp, ML, Scheme, and the
somewhat ironically named Pure language are straightforward extensions of
imperative programming: you can make your code less imperative without
being completely deprived of it.  All of these are tail-recursive (formally
CL is not, but most implementations are) which means that recursive loops
become non-recursive gotos, and for/do-loops wind up being pure without you
noticing.



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