Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!brendan From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?)) Message-ID: <5055@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 1 Oct 90 04:49:45 GMT References: <5006@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <5049@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <14197@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 17 aahz@netcom.UUCP (Dan Bernstein) writes: >Okay, I hate sounding like an ignoramus, but just WHERE do you get the >ability to return tuples? Not sure what you mean. Are you questioning the theoretical possibility or are you simply telling us that this facility does not exist in C? It does exist in some (functional) languages and is a simple extension to a procedural languages run-time stack conventions. If your problem is the second then I think you have lost this thread as we are discussing the inadequacies of C, and other "industrial" programming languages. -- Brendan Mahony | brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz Department of Computer Science | heretic: someone who disgrees with you University of Queensland | about something neither of you knows Australia | anything about.