Re: OT: geometrical algorithm design

> That's only because current coding languages are based on the wrong
> fundamental principles. Get rid of CALL / RETURN (and RPC's and other
> variants) and a whole lot of hidden, breakable dependencies disappear.
>

I have often wondered if there were not another abstraction that got
rid of call/return similarly to how functional languages rid the need
of 'set'. Do you happen to have any liturature on such languages?
Formal papers perhaps?

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-Dave Watson
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