From: Haris Bogdanovic Date: 2009-01-09T22:24:38+09:00 Subject: Re: functional programming Only the bits of a program that are appropriate for that. I don't know how can a Haskell programmer live without objects in larger projects ? You loose track of what is where in the program. "andrea" wrote in message news:c3f4685a-6558-4a75-93f0-a6b1c9061c63@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > Very interesting discussion, I love ruby and I love also haskell, > which I think made me a better programmer. > > But does it really make sense to program in a functional way in ruby?? > > "Functional" code can be much more clean and elegant (in my opinion) > but what about performance issues??? > > The interpreter is going to have many new objects created around, and > so there will be more work for the garbage collector or more memory > used, am I wrong?