On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> I do not like the use of parentheses in the usage description "list
>> (procedural) languages". Why not have it simply as "list procedural
>> languages"?
>
> Because it lists non-procedural langauges as well? (I didn't check it,
> that's just a guess)
There are many places in our code and documentation where "procedural
language" or "language" are treated as synonyms. There's no semantic
difference; procedural is simply a noise word.
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