Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?
Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile · Search for syntax in comp.lang.functional
Author: Tom Lord
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:36
... first. On the other hand, if you've learned sequential programming, the functional languages present two major (related) obstacles: 1) A programmer who shows up to the first day of class and says "Ok, what's the syntax for a for loop? How do I assign to a variable," is going to have to spend the first several hours learning to not look for these things. 2) The notation of functional languages is remarkably confusing unless you ...
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