http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2006/01/24/functional-programming en-us 40 additions to a vast pool of entropy by Igor and Ines <p style="float:left"><a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/"><img src="http://www.bytelabs.org/images/lambda.png" title="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/" alt="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/" /></a></p> <p>Finally there is the chance to dive into another paradigm of programming, namely functional programming. Somehow a little bit neglected at the <a href="http://www.jku.at"><span class="caps">JKU</span></a>, it is standard practice over here at the <a href="http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk">Edinburgh University</a>. Maybe the reason for this is that <a href="http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/">Philip Wadler</a>, the inventor of the <a href="http://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</a> functional programming language is a Professor at <a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk">UoE</a>.</p> <p>But I think that the true reason for this is the beauty of functional programming languages. Surely not every problem can be easily solved with functional programming but for the areas I have seen so far, it seems to be a very elegant and succinct approach!</p> <p>So far I was able to stick my nose into <a href="http://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</a> and <a href="http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/index.en.html">OCaml</a>. The nice thing about functional languages is that once you have understood the underlying concepts, it is very easy to learn a &#8220;new&#8221; functional programming language. Much easier than it is to learn a new imperative language.</p> <p>Finally there is this <a href="http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/">funny quizz</a> where you are asked to distinguish between a programming language inventor and a serial killer. Try it out, it is really funny!</p> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:09:00 +0000 urn:uuid:5c71eb8c61e69f182808d6df9e18146b igor http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2006/01/24/functional-programming Hacking and Computers http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/trackback/30