Re: Functional programming?
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- Subject: [mg91949] Re: [mg91945] Functional programming?
- From: "peter lindsay" <pl.0 at me.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:38:29 -0400 (EDT)
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as an old-timer myself - I'd be very interested in this too, particularly - as you say - with reference to engineering problems. I'm afraid my favorite construct was the REPEAT - UNTIL loop, which should finally ruin any shreds of credibility that I may once have had... Peter 2008/9/13 AES <siegman at stanford.edu>: > I suggest it might be instructive if some of the functional programming > proponents on this group could provide us DO-looping old timers with a > brief summary or tutorial as to what is really meant by, or involved in, > "functional programming"? > > --- especially as this concept might relate to building programs to do > calculations involving multi-stage real-world engineering or technical > problems > > --- and especially as it might relate to programs that are going to be > developed in an evolutionary process and that in the end, rather than > being built into some long-term library, are maybe only going to be run > or executed a few times before the person involved (e.g., an engineer, > or scientist, or other real-world individual, not a "programmer") moves > on to some other totally different task or assignment. > > --
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- Functional programming?
- From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>
- Functional programming?