On Feb 22, 9:06 pm, Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> writes: > > My gut instinct is that functional programming works well for lots of > > medium sized problems and it is worth learning. > > I think it's worth learning because it will make you a better programmer > even if you never use it for anything beyond academic exercises. It's > just like playing Bach fugues in some of your practice hours will make > you a better musician even if you are professionally a heavy metal rock > guitarist.
Well said, and your analogy is based in fact--some pretty awesome rock guitarists have training in classical and jazz. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list