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You can reach the person managing the list at beginners-ow...@haskell.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Beginners digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Why Functional Programming Matters <-- this will make you smarter (Costello, Roger L.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:32:31 +0000 From: "Costello, Roger L." <coste...@mitre.org> Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Why Functional Programming Matters <-- this will make you smarter To: "beginners@haskell.org" <beginners@haskell.org> Message-ID: <b5fee00b53cf054aa8439027e8fe17751e6f3...@imcmbx04.mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Folks, I have written a summary of the outstanding paper by John Hughes titled, Why Functional Programming Matters. Hughes says that the purpose of his paper is to demonstrate to the "real world" that functional programming is vitally important. I say that the purpose of his paper is to make you smarter. The paper presents a series of problems. As I proceeded through the problems, I realized that I was on a beautiful journey to the promised land of solving problems by simply combining existing parts. It was a thrilling, mind-expanding journey. Hughes implemented the solutions to the problems using Miranda. I converted them to Haskell. http://www.xfront.com/Haskell/Why-Functional-Programming-Matters.pdf /Roger ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners End of Beginners Digest, Vol 55, Issue 29 *****************************************