From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-01-14T18:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: functional programming

Mike Gold wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>> Different languages suit different people's thought processes.
> 
> But the different languages shape the thought processes.

Of course - and dabbling with Lisp and Erlang have undoubtedly been 
useful. That doesn't mean I want to abandon Ruby and change to Lisp.

That would be a big investment, for example:

- analysing and choosing which dialect and implementation of Lisp to use
- learning a whole new set of standard libraries
- learning a whole new set of tools and frameworks (e.g. unit testing)
- probably even learning a new editor too

and I am not convinced there would be significant payback in either 
productivity or "fun".

OTOH, I can certainly see applications where it would be worthwhile 
moving to Erlang - using the CSP model for distributed processing. Of 
course, I expect now to be told that Lisp has such capabilities as well 
:-)
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