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		pjmlp on April 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) Lambdas/first class functions were already there in Turbo Pascal 5.0, via procedure types. Coupled with nested subroutines, there was already a couple of things possible.

Roboprog on April 13, 2020 [–]

Functions could be parameters in Pascal, but not return values. This allowed closures (mostly) without a garbage collector.

C and its descendants was such a step backwards.

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