[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Richard Maher]

On 14/04/2022 12:23 pm, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/13/2022 10:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/13/2022 8:43 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 4/13/2022 6:39 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:42 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> You forgot Pascal!
>>>> 
>>>> Nice language, it must be the only one I'm aware of that allows
>>>> nested procedures and functions. I've not met another
>>>> programming language that allows that.
>>> 
>>> Can you better define nested functions?  Then I can decide if
>>> Basic allows such.
>> 
>> Functions declared inside functions (and therefore only available 
>> inside the declaring function).
>> 
>> Arne
>> 
> 
> Ok, what is so neat about that?
> 
> I cannot see the point, when if one wants to use a second function 
> inside a first function, another external function should be
> callable. Haven't tried it recently.  Maybe I should.  Perhaps I
> should know what I'm talking about at least once a year.
> 
> But I can see no reason to have a function defined inside another
> function.
> 

Encapsulation/Isolation