Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 13:44:34 EDT 2016

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:33 AM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>>> Procedural programming under another name...
>>>
>>> Only in the sense that procedural programming is unstructured programming
>>> under another name. What is a procedure call but a disguised GOSUB, and
>>> what is GOSUB but a pair of GOTOs?
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>> Continuation-passing style is only GOTOs. Instead of returning to the
>> caller, procedures pass control to the continuation, together with the
>> values that the continuation is expecting from the procedure.
>>
>> I guess you can think of it as a way to disguise a GOSUB.
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> Really, if you think about it, both functional and procedural programming
> are exactly the same as programming in assembly language. Returning a value
> from a function pushes that value onto the function call stack, which is
> really just a disguised assembly MOV command.

http://xkcd.com/435/

Also relevant to this conversation:

https://xkcd.com/1270/

ChrisA

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