From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T05:16:45+09:00
Subject: Functional Programming? (was Re: Lazy evaluaton)

In article <3q7gddFdii3nU1@individual.net>, bob.news@gmx.net says...
> > I'm going to be noting all this down, Lazy Evaluation is a subject in
> > Functional Programming and AI.
> 
> ... although it's by far not restricted to that.
> 
> Btw, recently I discovered (better: started using) an interesting idiom that 
> exploits the fact that both Proc and Hash implement #[].

Could you recommend a good book for us old-timers - who grew up in 
procedural languages, never learned more Lisp than we needed to 
customize Emacs, and are still getting our heads around the now-half-
obsolete OO GoF patterns - to learn about functional programming and its 
idioms?   From reading this thread, I would have assumed that FP is 
another word for "procedural" but clearly it's much, much more.

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