db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry) (11/17/89)
In article <210@eiffel.UUCP> sarkela@eiffel.UUCP (John Sarkela) writes: >Where functional programming is >appropriate, Eiffel endeavours to make it as easy as possible to >link to functional languages such as C. In all the clasifications of programming languages that I've seen, C is not a functional language. It is an imperative language or a procedural language. Is there a classification I've missed, or is John confusing functional design and functional programming? Dave Berry, Laboratory for Foundations db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk of Computer Science, Edinburgh Uni. <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!db