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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: "functional" programming in Ada
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:08:08 +0100
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On 06/03/2018 15:35, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
> On 06/03/18 14:09, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 06/03/2018 12:34, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
>>> In a recent project I've started using in full if/case expressions 
>>> and expression functions... and I'm a bit scared at the amount of use 
>>> I have for them. I'm using these constantly.
>>
>> That is how wrong ideas become most popular ones.
> 
> Do you find something inherently wrong,

Yes, both functional programming paradigm and ways to break out of it. 
The latter is doubly wrong. If functional programming is so cool why 
would anybody wrap procedural building blocks into functional ones?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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