[Haskell-cafe] I miss OO

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 20:03 , Matthias Görgens wrote:
>> When OO is about constructing a "machine" and talking about objects,
>> and FP is about making little algebraic languages, what would C or
>> Pascal be like? In these languages, you don't think about objects,  
>> but
>> you don't think about an algebra either? It's been a very long time
>> since I worked with these languages, but as far as I recall, I  
>> started
>> thinking about data structures and procedures operating on these data
>> structures, which sounds a look like making ADTs and
>> functions/operations on these... So this sounds odd, because it would
>> mean that C and Pascal are in a sense closer to FP than OO is?
>
> You are working with state all the time in C and Pascal.  Perhaps a C
> with a garbage collector would be closer to FP, because you could
> construct new structures all the time without worrying about memory
> leaks.


A Boehm GC library for C has been around for years.  Nevertheless, I  
wouldn't call C-with-Boehm "functional programming".

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