On May 8, 1:56 pm, namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Carl Banks escreveu: > > > 2. However, functional programming is cryptic at some level no matter > > how nice you make the syntax. > > When your program is nothing but function definition and function > application, syntax is meaningless.
For mere function application you could maybe argue that (and it'd be a stretch), but there is no reasonable way to claim that syntax is meaningless for defining functions. Unless you meant "function declaration", and I think you did because you don't seem to know what functional programming is. > It's kinda like scripting, say, Microsoft Word in either Visual Basic, > Python, Haskell or whatever: No it's nothing like that at all. > you're just calling functions provided by > the host, That's not what functional programming means, nor is it remotely comparable to functional programming. > barely using any syntax or intrinsic language feature anyway. > Any language will do just fine. Well, that's not true since I found it to be quite a different experience to invoke Microsoft library functions in JScript than in Visual Basic. (Mostly because it's a PITA even to "barely use any syntax or intrinsic language feature" of Visual Basic.) However, that has nothing to do with functional programming. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list