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November 28, 2003
Why functional programming matters
One of the weblogs in the list over on the left is Lambda the Ultimate. It's a good place to keep track of for interesting things related to programming languages in general.
There's a pointer to a paper by John Hughes called Why Functional Programming Matters. For those of you wondering why it matters, it might make for an interesting read.
In a similar thread, you might take a look at Paul Graham's webpages; he's an old Lisper (well, I don't know how old he is, actually). His story about the development of Viaweb (now Yahoo! Stores) is a fun read. At any point that a handful of people want to learn Lisp, I'll be glad to run a separate seminar series on that.
Also, related to botNet, (BotNet? DotBotNet? ...), his brief article on Design Philosophy is interesting; Paul is writing about a new language he's developing called Arc, but there's a good point here: if we find what we develop to a pain to use, then noone will use it!
Traffic should go up for a while on the list and #cscs as we attempt to find a name for our project, and I expect to post a summary of the previous meeting soon. Perhaps shendry and I will tag team on that? Who knows...
Posted by mjadud at November 28, 2003 12:20 AM
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i think its crap
Posted by: cisman at June 1, 2004 06:49 PM