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A comment on Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation. Parent comment

Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:58PM (#23588152)
I thought he was talking about Mathematics.

It's a functional language.

Always has been.

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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by IncRnd on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:14PM (#23589170)
From that standpoint, C is a functional language. Functions are first class citizens in C. I doubt that is what he was discussing.
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