9 Jun
2013
9 Jun
'13
6:03 a.m.
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:21:54 -0400 (EDT)
Jason Howe <jason at smbfc.net> wrote:
[functional programming]
The same can be said about imperative programming.
People usually get started with imperative programming. It is familar,
as it is like a cooking recipe: Do this, then that until condition,
finaly do ...
If you are a mathematician, functional programming will be much closer
to what you are used to.
Currently I am diving into Haskell. Many times it is astonishing to me
how easy and natural some things are to express in a functional
programming language.
--
\end{Jochen}
\ref{http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/}
It's
simple to teach and use.
This is a joke, right?
It really is a different way of thinking that's not easy for some folks to
pick up.