Re: Functional programming

Thank you ,that was enlightening, and explains why I've heard so much about
Lisp. I'll make sure to takre a look.

-- Best regards, Sergio
El 6/9/2015 23:47, "Liam Proven" <[email protected]> escribió:

> On 6 September 2015 at 19:16, Sergio Tortosa Benedito
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anyone has tried it? I've been looking at it for some days (thought I
> > already knew it), and has anyone tried it? Specially since my main point
> of
> > interest are "stateful" apps (such as GUI and games), it's worth the
> change
> > in style of thinking? And it ends up being easy to kniw what it's
> written?
>
>
> Tried it? No.
>
> Researched it? Yes.
>
> It is extremely powerful for some tasks. It can be more work for others.
>
> Pure FP languages are common but niche. OCaml is one of the big ones.
> MLdonkey (a P2P client) is one of the only remotely mainstream apps
> entirely written in it.
>
> Haskell is more of an academic plaything:
>
> http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1312:_Haskell
>
> Impure FP is more widely used: Clojure is growing in the Java
> community, Scala is not as big yet.
>
> The daddy is Lisp, which is both imperative and functional. If you
> were looking at just one to learn, I'd go for Lisp.
>
> "the greatest single programming language ever designed"
>
> - Alan Kay, on Lisp
>
> "Lisp is a programmable programming language."
>
> - John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991
>
> "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."
>
> - Alan Kay
>
> Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you
> will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a
> better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never
> actually use Lisp itself a lot.
>
>  - Eric S. Raymond, How to Become a Hacker.
>
> Emacs is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is
> beautiful.
>
>  - Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line.
>
> "Land of Lisp" is a good intro.
>
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