Re: Ada for a programming newb.

[chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> What rubbish! "Programming-by-side-effect" has been the essence of
> computing from the very beginning, from Turing machines to memory-
> mapped video displays. FP is a completely alien concept, having no
> intuitive correspondence to anything in the real world to make it
> amenable to understanding.

What rubbish!  Computing started with maths and is a form of 
mathematics.  A great deal of maths is side effect free.

> When I go to the barber, the result is not a new copy of me with
> shorter hair. It's the same old me witha side-effect applied.

How do you know?

> By the way, the first and second prize winners of the 2003 ICFP
> contest used C++. The Judges' Prize winners used C++ and Dylan.

And in previous years it was functional languages (Dylan is highly 
functional).  That only shows some languages are better suited than 
others to certain problems.