Functions in SuperCollider and Processing have many differences. In this episode I compare some of those differences.

In SuperCollider, the last expression in a function is always returned, so you don't need to use the keyword "return". You also do not specify return types or argument types, so that makes the code simpler too. In many programming languages you call functions using parenthesis, like: doSomething(); In SC you use .value. For instance, f.value. One more difference is that functions do not have names, but are stored in variables. So a function is a data type, like a number or a string. This may sound confusing if you never worked with such a language (JavaScript allows this too), but don't worry. For now I just want you to recognize functions, arguments and returned values when you see them.