Are there contemporary programming languages that do NOT have the ability to import functions or values or whatever from other files? Are there situations in which that would be a feature?
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Are there contemporary programming languages that do NOT have the ability to import functions or values or whatever from other files? Are there situations in which that would be a feature?
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Knowing programmers, I think a major unintended side effect of such a paradigm would be HUGE monolithic source files.

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Nah, you’d just get a preprocessor like C/C++ to do #include for you prior to compiling.

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