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From: db@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object
Subject: Re: Basic info
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Date: 17 Nov 89 13:38:08 GMT
References: <1944@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <210@eiffel.UUCP>
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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