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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Michele SimionatoMichele Simionato Date: Sep 20, 2008 03:20
On Sep 19, 11:42В am, Benjamin L. Russell Yahoo.com>
wrote:>
> If you could please briefly outline your evolution in programming
> languages as a functional programmer (preferably in this thread), and
> describe any related thoughts/comments that you have on this
> correlation (or anything else relevant), your assistance in this
> research would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -- Benjamin L. Russell
Here it goes:
Chronology:
1985: Basic on a Casio pocket calculator
1986-1991: AmigaBasic
1987-1988: UCSD Pascal
1995-1998: Mathematica
1999-2001: Maple
2002-now: Python
2003-now: Scheme
2005-now: SQL
2008: SML
Notes:
I was first exposed to functional programming when using Mathematica
for symbolic computations in High Energy Phisics. It always felt more
natural to me than OO programming, probably because of my mathematical
background. Anyway, I consider myself a multi-paradigm programmer, not
an OO programmer or a functional programmer.
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