[Oberon] Functional programming and Oberon

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Srinivas Nayak
> Sent: Friday, 16 December 2016 4:36 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Functional programming and Oberon
> 
> I got interested towards functional programming, reading that it
> favors concurrency and avoidance of mutation is the future...
> 
> What is the reality?
> 
> I haven't seen much regarding this from Dijkstra, Wirth, Hoare and
> their friends...
> So what are language master's thoughts on this?
> 

Wirth writes about Functional Programming on pages 66-67 of the paper that
Lars mentioned recently:

"Good Ideas, through the Looking Glass", IEEE Computer, Jan. 2006.

Regards,
Chris Burrows

CFB Software
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