> I'm not sure I understand you here; the question (answered with "yes" or
> "no") was "does the language make a distinction between functions and
> procedures?" Your response seems to say you agree with me: assembly doesn't
> make any distinction between the two, all is a call/return construct, so
> the answer is "no".

I interpreted the question at hand slightly differently: which languages 
distinguish between functions and procedures (examples: algol, pascal, 
ada), and which languages have both but don't distinguish them 
(examples: C, Python). There is a third group, which does not have both, 
so it makes no sense to distinguish them (examples: assembler, basic in 
its original form).

> What do you mean by "pure function"? And which languages enforce such a
> thing?

functional languages. Haskell IIRC is close.

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