Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
A little bit of superficial research on Wikipedia has convinced me
that I
will probably never grok functional programming.
I'm not convinced that is bad.
The whole "side-effect free" is not necessarily the panacea functional
programmers make it out to be.
It is more than side-effect free. It is stateless, or more accurately,
"state is isolated". While no panacea, it is kind of a logical extension
of what OO is doing in terms of encapsulating state. The nice thing is
that the language and the developer is consequently very aware of state.
Given that most problems seem to come from state, this seems like a good
thing.
--Chris
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