| Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming? |
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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: namekuseijinnamekuseijin Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:05
On Sep 19, 9:51Â am, Slobodan Blazeski gmail.com>
wrote:> On Sep 19, 11:42Â am, Benjamin L. Russell Yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> Purely functional is a misnomer, the better name would be langauges
> who lack assignment.
Any language can do that by either using just single assignment or
function evaluation.
> And I disagree. it should say it's hard to teach  non-mainstream
> languages to students who know that there is no money in them and have
> experience with mainstream langauges that earned them cash by making
> web sites for video store next door.
Hmm, that's very true.
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