This leads to nowhere. If we look at natural languages (as approximation
to "thinking"), neither paradigm can be well expressed. Sure, we can
describe a sequence of steps easily ("do this, then do that, then do the
third thing"), but it quickly ends when you try to describe loops. There
are also ways of expressing functional thinking in languages ("the
faster I run the quicker I reach the destination" - time as function of
speed).The issue is probably more that procedural thinking is trained in programing classes, while functional thinking is not. Neither of the paradigms is really close to humans as such. Gerd Am Freitag, den 14.10.2011, 13:50 +0200 schrieb Jean Krivine: > In the comments: > "Procedural programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us > do no not think in a way that maps easily to functional programming. " > > That a very functional thought to me :) > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Nicolas Bros <[email protected]> > wrote: > If a great OCaml guru/teacher wrote a great book, I'm > sure it would have great sales on Amazon (I'd buy > it :) > > You may want to read this book : > http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html > > > It is the english translation of the french book > "Développement d'applications avec Objective Caml": > http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/Livres/ora/DA-OCAML/index.html > http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841771210 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann, Darmstadt, Germany [email protected] Creator of GODI and camlcity.org. Contact details: http://www.camlcity.org/contact.html Company homepage: http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de *** Searching for new projects! Need consulting for system *** programming in Ocaml? Gerd Stolpmann can help you. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
