> In recent conversation with a colleague, he mentioned to me that the term > "functional programming" has an image problem. He suggested that the term
short komment: "meta programming" and "meta-language" makes people curious, "functional programming" seems to have the opposite effect. merry xmas - marc Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2003 18:26 schrieb Graham Klyne: > I've spent part of the past few months learning Haskell and developing a > moderately sized application. I came to this from a long background (20 > years or so) of "conventional" programming in a variety of languages (from > Fortran and Algol W to Java and Python). For me, learning Haskell has been > one of the steepest learning curves of any new language that I have ever > learned. Before this project, I was aware of some aspects of functional > programming, but had never previously done any "in anger" (i.e. for real). > > Throughout this period, I've been accumulating some notes about some things > that I found challenging along the way. The notes are not organized in any > way, and they're certainly not complete. I've published them on my web > site [1] in case the perspective might be useful to any "old hands" here. > > [1] http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/Learning-Haskell-Notes.html > > ... > > Also on the topic of perspectives: > > In recent conversation with a colleague, he mentioned to me that the term > "functional programming" has an image problem. He suggested that the term > conveys an impression of an approach that is staid, non-progressive or > lacking novelty, and is prone to elicit a response of "been there, done > that" from programmers who don't realize the full significance of the term > "functional". I've also noticed that when I talk about "functional > programming", some people tend to think I'm talking about using techniques > like functions in C or Pascal (which is course is very desirable, but old > hat and not worthy of great excitement). > > #g > > > ------------ > Graham Klyne > For email: > http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
