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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/14/2022 1:17 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
> 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

Isolation from what?  You're writing the code, you decide what to write, I still 
don't see the point.

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