> So, ya, the question is "How do you pass information between sub-routines". Nitpicking now, but phrasing it that way supposes the existence of sub-routines.

> So, ya, the question is "How do you pass information between sub-routines". Nitpicking now, but phrasing it that way supposes the existence of sub-routines. I would prefer to phrase as just thinking about control-flow and data-flow. Most programming languages have complex control-flow and constraint data-flow to follow along with control-flow. Most successful end-user languages have arbitrary but static data-flow and little to no control-flow. > Thank you for taking the time to have this discussion. If nothing else, I find that these sorts of discussions tend to be really useful to clarify my thinking and catch my mistakes. Civil disagreement is much more interesting than ideological agreement or disagreement :)