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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Manuel Collado Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "functional" programming in Ada Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:00:09 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sl6JDqdS1ZkrDS9PHSsXwA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 180303-0, 03/03/2018), Outbound message Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50849 Date: 2018-03-06T17:00:09+01:00 List-Id: El 06/03/2018 a las 16:08, Dmitry A. Kazakov escribió: > On 06/03/2018 15:35, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote: >> >> 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? > Well, it may sound a bit heterodox, but IMHO functional programming is just a subset of imperative (= procedural) programming. - Functional programming = expressions - Imperative programming = expressions + variables + procedural actions So why avoid the power of some functional programming expressions in the imperative programming world? Just my 2c. -- Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado