From: Yu-Hsuan Lai <raincolee@...>
Date: 2010-11-26T05:26:53+09:00
Subject: Should I do functional programming in Ruby?

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I'm a high school student and beginner of ruby.
I know that ruby is a functional-hybrid language which has many elegant
features such as first-class function, closure and implicit return.

But I also have heard the slogan "least astonishment".
I only used to learn C and C++. In my country, majority of students (school
or university) study C/C++/Java and self-study C#/VB/PHP/ASP. We seldom use
lisp or haskell.
I think that for most people, functional programming can cause much
astonishment.
Of course readability is important. So, should I write ruby in C-like
paradigm in order to decrease astonishment?

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Lai, Yu-Hsuan

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