neil: > > The question is --- how would an expert describe such a process? Would a > > professional chef give instructions in the functional or imperative > > style? > > I think a sufficiently expert chef would not even need the functional > style. Everything would be declarative. > > Dave Thomas (of "Pragmatic Programmers" fame) tells of finding his late > grandmother's recipe cards, which she accumulated over her entire life. He > was able to track their evolution from an extremely pedantic, imperative > style, through to the almost Zen-like cards that read: > > "Spice cake: like chocolate cake. No chocolate, add spice".
Surely this is the arrow or monad transformer of recipe abstractions! Entirely new functionality, and such information density, on a single line. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
