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From: nevin@igloo.scum.com (Nevin Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission
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Date: 4 Oct 90 06:13:22 GMT
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In article <5088@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:

>The percieved need for
>side-effects in terms is merely a by-product of the poor state of language
>design, and would not be missed at all in better languages.

I disagree.  This would throw out all functions which maintain their
own state (eg: i/o).  Heck, you might ask why we even have variables?
Even the LISP community gave into this as being a helpful programming
technique.
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