Functional programming is not be more productive than imperative programming.
Besides the fact in practical cases, you can hardly do a real application in pure functional programming and how it sometimes complicates things by making you think things in a twisted way, there's a problem with functional programming:
Every time I write something that's actually much faster than having written the same thing in an imperative paradigm, I spend all the time I saved fapping to it.
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Anonymous2006-05-10 9:50
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Anonymous2006-05-10 10:17
>>1
Yeah, I'll bet you also used to have issues with premature ejaculation.
>>7
no, prolog is a logical language. functional is stuff like Lisp and ML. they're almost impossible to program in.
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Anonymous2006-05-10 22:44
they're almost impossible to program in.
Depends what you're trying to do.
And your familiarity.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 0:34
Depends if you're a fucking retard or not.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 3:29
>>11
Lisp (and I assume you mean Common Lisp, as most people do when they say Lisp) is not a functional language; it merely provides function programming for those who want to use it, along with OOP, imperative (granted imperative Lisp looks uglier than Satan's large intestine) declarative and anything other style you can define in a screenful of macros.
Scheme is closer to being a functional language.
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Anonymous2006-05-11 3:30
Depends if you like mental wankery and doing things unusual ways or not.
>>26
no real recursion, it's useless then for functionnal stuff like matrices.
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Anonymous2006-05-13 20:56
>>23
Is correct. If you wish to write a program to show a complex logical implication or numerical calculation then it can be much easier translating those mathematical formulae from symbols on a piece of paper to program using a functional then a imperative language.
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Anonymous2006-05-14 1:48
My grandfather made BASIC functional, they said it was impossible to write what he did in anything besides FORTRAN, but he whipped out his 1337x0r-cox0r and did it, because he knew BASIC and not FORTRAN.
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Anonymous2006-05-14 6:36
I made Bash functional
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Anonymous2006-05-14 7:08
>>30
But Sun tells me Java can do everything and we only need one language EVAR!!!!!!