From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,442a61fa28886220 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-18 16:32:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!sunsite.dk!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.get2net.dk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for a programming newb. References: From: Mark Lorenzen Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RYVLeeuSUQGSIVRYQ+8Bhi76kEM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:38:21 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.84.221.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@colt-telecom.dk X-Trace: news.get2net.dk 1063927945 62.84.221.216 (Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:32:25 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:32:25 CEST Organization: Colt Telecom Kunde Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42672 Date: 2003-09-19T03:38:21+02:00 List-Id: "Luke A. Guest" 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