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That does not really sound like Wirth, who never was involved in functional programming as far as I can tell and was not a big fan of spreadsheets. Wirth alway
by microtherion 8y ago
That does not really sound like Wirth, who never was involved in functional programming as far as I can tell and was not a big fan of spreadsheets.
Wirth always was insistent that programs should strive to be transparent about the computational effort involved in an action, so I can't imagine him being fond of e.g. Haskell.
- baybal2 8y agoThen, my memory fails me. Maybe I am mistaking him for somebody else. But I do remember my teacher obsessing over virtues of obscure languages like Algol, Oberon and Modula.
- wirrbel 8y agoI think wirth did however like to distinguish between procedures and functions. Not functional in todays meaning of the word, but similar in spirit.
- microtherion 8y agoYes, there were functions in Pascal, but that's the smallest part of functional programming.