Good post. Not sure C qualifies as "pure imperative" - it has expressions and functions after all. I'd think a true pure imperative language would have to be ei

Good post. Not sure C qualifies as "pure imperative" - it has expressions and functions after all. I'd think a true pure imperative language would have to be either assembly without macros or something like Forth (where IIRC each "word" is a self-contained command that performs an action on the stack etc.)