> Bear in mind that I've spent a long time working with VistA and seen a > lot of broken or fragile code. A big part of the appeal of this > approach is to make the code less fragile and more easily maintainable. > In fact, it does turn out that functional programs tend to be shorter > by a factor of four or more, and they tend to be quite robust. One > common use of functional programming is in the development of safety > critical systems (something that should surely be of interest to the > VistA community). Finally, my experience is that functional programs > are much easier to "keep in your head" and to reason about. >
Procedural languases are probably closer to the way we think about life. We go through life one step after the other. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
