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If you learned that "programming is like telling the computer a recipe" I can see how FP looks strange. It's a bad analogy though. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~r
by hcarvalhoalves 11y ago
If you learned that "programming is like telling the computer a recipe" I can see how FP looks strange.
It's a bad analogy though.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
- ktRolster 11y agoIt's an example of that style of thinking that made Dijkstra write his famous quote, "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
- mavelikara 11y agoAlso, Backus' 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs" (http://worrydream.com/refs/Backus-CanProgrammingBeLiberated.pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/Backus-CanProgrammingBeLiberated....) would be a good read.