Re: Ada for a programming newb.

[Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk>]

"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@abyss2-nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:

[snip]

>
> Forget about about functional/logic programming languages, it's generally
> really strange people who *get* these. They're too odd - i.e.
> mathematical/formal, which isn't as natural as "normal" programming
> languages.
>  

I very strongly disagree with this statement. Functional programming
is the essence of programming and the absolutely most natural way of
describing how to solve a problem.

You can learn the philosophy of functional programming and then be a
good programmer in any language or you can learn an imperative
language and be stuck in your "programming-by-side-effect" way of
thinking.

In functional programming you concentrate on the problem and it's
solution.

[snip]

- Mark Lorenzen