> 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
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:26:20PM +, Graham Klyne wrote:
> 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
> si
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
