Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

[PMA]

Wols Lists wrote:
> On 18/04/15 22:11, PMA wrote:
> > Aha.  So the improper-er their code got, the tougher time
> > compilers had trying to -- as Martin says -- "throw it out".
> >
> > All told, is there now any real need _not_ to use the terms
> > "function" and "procedure" interchangeably?  That is, any
> > real need to try to enforce such a distinction?  The terms
> > are conflated, everybody knows, and there's no problem.
> >
> > (No response expected -- at this point I'm just ranting.)
>
> Except to me, the terms "function" and "procedure" are NOT the same
> thing :-)
>
> A function has a return value, a subroutine does not. A procedure can be
> either.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol

And that seems rightly to summarize common usage -- in people
speech, anyway.  Maybe, if you're a new programming language,
survival will hinge more on your _exception_ to common usage.