video on the birth of BASIC

[Thomas Klemm]

(02-26-2019 12:32 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  ALGOL provided good ideas for what eventually became C, but it also had significant complexity for a compiler writer, because of two features in particular, call-by-name and nested functions.

Scala has both: by-name parameters and nested methods.

Quote:Thinking back, I find myself thinking, who could ever have thought those features were a good idea? Pascal dropped the former and C also the latter, and nobody misses them, I'm sure, but they were the result of the language being designed by mathematicians.

Coming from Pascal (and Modula-2) I missed nested functions when I started to learn C++.
Why would you have to clutter the namespace with a local function?

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