From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-09T00:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Language chatter

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> I'm glad you enjoyed the trip down memory lane ;-). I gave up on functional
> programming over a dozen years ago, for two reasons: first, I learned the
> hard way that writing really good compilers for lambda-based languages
> requires a huge amount of mathematical knowledge, and mine doesn't go beyond
> partial diffeqs. Second, my experiments with ordinary professional
> programmers proved that the proportion of them who are mentally receptive to
> the functional style is too small to be commercially valuable. I was
> completely taken with FP myself, but one programmer does not a team make.
>

can you elaborate?  i'm very interested in your personal opinion without
regard to other team members (i work with only one other person and she's a
math genius).

regards.

-a
-- 
to foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than
meditation and prayer.
- h.h. the 14th dali lama