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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: The state of functional programming
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"(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:C8762BCC.14B84F%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk...
> On 28/07/2010 17:40, in article 
> g24nvegdi17t$.1azxwn1rwjixi$.dlg@40tude.net,
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
...
>> This claim was made for each and every programming paradigm. It need to 
>> be
>> substantiated, and especially for FP, which does not look very promising 
>> at
>> all.
>
> Indeed, it has been "promising", but not delivering, for a very long time.

No kidding. FP was an "old" technique when I studied it as an undergraduate 
at the University of Wisconsin. In 1978.

I think it appeals to those that are very mathematically inclined. But they 
tend to forget that there is a lot more to programming than just creating 
functions and stringing them together. (Not to say that there isn't value to 
some of the ideas, but only in a larger framework that deals with typing, 
problem mapping, and the like.)

                                          Randy.