http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell Sat, 26 Sep 2020 21:06:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.17 http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-494 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:23:02 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-494 Perhaps from an implementator’s perspective, in contrast with Haskell+IO and CPP+C, where the programming model itself is a functional language evaluating to an imperative computation.

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-493 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:50:47 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-493 So is Java is purely functional language that yields a pure value of type “Java byte-code”?

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-492 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:52:36 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-492 […] programming languages. In functional languages (or even semi-functional ones like Fortran, ML, and Haskell+IO), we answer the connectivity/composition questions by nesting function applications. Overall inputs […]

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-489 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:38:23 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-489 […] with an interest in computing theory, functional linguistics, or computational logic needs to read this. Perhaps it was famous and I had not found it before, but it is […]

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-488 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:26:34 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-488 As Simon PJ said in an invited talk in 2003, Haskell is the world’s finest imperative language…

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-487 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:12:17 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-487 Conal, where would I read up more on how we’d get rid of the imperative stuff entirely, and go with purely functional, and still have terminal interaction? I’m not yet sure what to use for a google search to find out Thank you.

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-486 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:08:36 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-486 […] There is a lot of confusion about the meaning of “functional” and “declarative” as descriptions of programming languages and paradigms. For instance, Haskell is sometimes advertised as a “purely functional programming language” and other times as “the world’s finest imperative programming language”. I added some playful confusion (and clarity, I hope) with my post The C language is purely functional. […]

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-485 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:34:03 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-485 […] functional programming language”, and in a technical sense it is. (In good company, too; see The C language is purely functional.) However, as commonly practiced, imperative computation (IO) still plays a significant role in […]

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-484 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:47:42 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-484 […] that can be browsed beginning at Conal Elliott’s brilliant and hilarious post explaining how The C language is purely functional. (You can follow the links to other parts of the discussion after you stop […]

]]> http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional#comment-483 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:49:23 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=87#comment-483 […] Conal Elliott hilariously writes how C is a purely-functional language. Definitely worth the read. When you come back here, remember that, just like in Smalltalk […]

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