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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Look ... [or: one, two, three, many]
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Date: 4 Jan 91 22:02:08 GMT
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In article <40690@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
> In article <3340:Jan322:21:4791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> >Gee. I wrote a Forth interpreter in 8088 assembler. Does that make Forth
> >a subset of 8088 assembler?
> No, and that was the point that the original poster made.  Just because you
> can code composable functions in C does not mean that composable functions
> are part of C.  

I never said they were. C's functions are not first-class. C's function
pointers are not composable. But C does have first-class composable
functions.

> >A parser for C cannot parse Fortran's spacing conventions. Finis.
> But the original code fragment passed a string to a function.

Which has to do neither with the statement ``Fortran is a subset of C,''
nor with the statement ``C has first-class functions,'' nor with
anything else remotely related to this discussion.

---Dan