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by Roboprog 4548 days ago
My guess would be too much "noun oriented thinking".

Some of us came of age before the tyranny of King Java, learning such obsolescent tools as Pascal, Lisp and C back in school. (I'm gonna ignore BASIC and FORTRAN, other than as examples of what not to do) We learned how to pass around individual functions/procedures to support library code.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...