On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 23:00, Mac Newbold wrote: > > Mac, who still cringes at the mention of the L*** word... > > I enjoyed my foray into functional programming. Wish it were more > widespread so I could use it more frequently.
I just can't figure out what it's _useful_ for. Seriously--with languages like Perl around, where you can do Lisp-ish sort of things, are there _any_ sorts of programs where the functional programming mindset/paradigm makes more sense and is eaier to program/debug/maintain than modern procedural languages? Granted, my entire experience with Lisp/Scheme is CS330, which hopefully I just barely passed. But that was the question I was thinking of the whole semester ... what would functional programming be _useful_ for? Any takers? ~ ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
