Talk:SAC programming language

Duplication (or disambiguation)?

Are these the same?

SA-C programming language: "Single Assignment C (SA-C) ...."
SAC programming language: "SAC (Single Assignment C) ...."

.... although the homepage links are different:

So if they are different, it might be an idea to put Disambiguation links in.

129.67.18.125 21:30, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Functional

This article duplicates the statement (from the website) that SaC is a functional language while strictly speaking it is not. The major issue is that SaC allows the use of variables which is clearly a form of state while according to the "definition" of functional languages here on wikipedia is the first golden rule for a functional language. It might be a good idea to make it clear that SaC can convert its syntax into a functional description but the description itself is not strictly functional (although perhaps applicative). Addendum: SaC does not have a notion of global state but only local state, this is indeed like a functional language, although the use of c-like 'variables' is more of the 'syntactic sugar'. Cyberwizzard (talk)

Since it does not have closures (which I assume is what is meant by "higher-order functions [...] are not (yet) supported by SAC" (which I believe is incorrect, since even plain C supports higher-order functions, in the form of function pointers)), I think it doesn't really qualify as functional. 201.35.78.190 (talk) 00:10, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]