An interesting article I read a long time ago by Paul Graham along these lines: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
Gary.
On Apr 22, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Ross Werner wrote:
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
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