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Subprograms As Parameters: Issues

• Are parameter types checked?
  • Early Pascal and FORTRAN 77 do not
  • Later versions of Pascal, Modula-2, and FORTRAN 90 do
  • Ada does not allow subprogram parameters
  • C and C++--pass pointers to functions; parameters can be type checked