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AHK and AutoIt would be considered what type of programming paradigm.

Procedural?

I know ultimately it is a scripting language, but what would it most closely resemble?

ahk is by definition a procedural language but in many ways fits the definition of functional as well

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That's what I thought, thanks Tank.

With AutoHotkey_L you have OOP also. hehe.

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OOP without the ability to create classes?
no not really
AHK_L has a ways to go before it can be called OOP

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Tank, can you explain to me how AHK can be described as a functional language?

i am not going to recide the definition of functional programing here it is done in various places on the web

if you have some argument on some basis that refutes this offer it

I wasn't trying to refute your statement but rather trying to understand better.

I am guessing that AHK can be partly considered a functional language by the fact that it supports higher-order functions and recursion?

And I thought I was learning OOP via AHK ... ( well, & a lil Ruby too )

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Its close but as you cant define objects just store references to other objects. I suppose yyou can create objects and sort of properties but you cant really define a method within an object so its an almost but not quite. .

public vs private memory management outside if what is available with functions

dont get me wrong for learning oop u can do almost everything with ahk_l except define true classes.

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Saying that AHK "in many ways fits the definition of functional" may be a bit of a stretch. I think it is more fair to say that AHK implements some aspects of functional programming; but using functions and using functional programming are not identical concepts. Purely functional programming excludes the basic components of the procedural paradigm.
● No variables
● No assignments
● No iteration (loops)
I'm not sure how complex a program you could write in AHK without these things... not that it couldn't be done, but I think it would be difficult as you would repeatedly find yourself reverting to a procedural style to suit AHK's strengths.

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Hey, you did ask for someone to refute it!

@jethrow
I still have yet to try any of the other flavors of AHK, but in gauging the "OOPness" of a language, look for data abstraction. Abstract data types are usually called classes, as tank said. They offer some very important features.
● Encapsulation (data hiding)
● Inheritance
● Dynamic method binding (polymorphism)

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Interesting thread. The AHK community is evolving, to find several participants on such a theoretical topic. This is a far cry from game macros.

We are saying the same thing. Its a close but no cigar coorilation but its much further towards a functional than not



Yes much more specifically said sorry i hate jargonizing my communication but in this case its necesary thanks for doing this part better


When someone such as I(a well known jerk ) ask to be refuted i am asking for it. I dont get mad upset or otherwise emotionally marred. I enjoy healthy factual debate. What irritates me is lack of effort which is much different that someone who is willing and able to cite reliable documentation that contradicts me. Like everyone being mistaken and making mistakes helps us grow

@jaco0646 of course i did and i meant it even if i aggree or dissagree. Thanks for not letting my being a more than occasional ass keep you from doing it

last post was me

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Looks like a way to dodge the problem. I can say that AHK is a concatenative language and give nothing to prove it, asking people to prove otherwise. A bit lazy...

AHK isn't functional, no more than C, for example. It has callbacks, but it doesn't have closures, to mention only a small side of functional programming. Likewise, it should have tail call recursion to enforce functional aspect (no iteration as jaco0646 points out).
Other things, like functions with no side effect, are more for pure functional languages, hardly usable in real world. After all, functions doing I/O, for example, need to have side effect...

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"Prototype-based programming is a style of object-oriented programming in which classes are not present, ...(more)."
Why doesn't this hastily written example qualify?


I personally don't see the importance in "classifying" AutoHotkey(_L) as a language - OOP, functional or otherwise. (In that case, why did I post in this thread? Nobody knows.)