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I have always wanted: A. an easy way to call into Haskell or some other fp from python. B. the ability to embedd the above so that I can have equations in a n
by sophacles 17y ago
I have always wanted:
A. an easy way to call into Haskell or some other fp from python.
B. the ability to embedd the above so that I can have equations in a nice mathy looking form but the rest in python.
C. all of the above w/ R too.
- tetha 17y agoThis post is a very, very nice proof of my feeling, that FP is usually not used due to the hassle of getting data into the program in a functional language. I mean, c'mon. Who was not confused by Haskells IO? And now, compare this with "foo = input()", or "bar = scanf("%d");". Bam. All the benefit of nice functional notation for the algorithms superseded by the hassle of getting data from the outside into the program (or, the very small hassle (seen relatively) to do so in imperative languages.