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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Functional Programming

People generally think best in terms of recipes, the imperative. Machines reason best about declarations. Functional programming is based upon the notion that if you limit humans to express themselves to terms favored by machines, then better software will result. This seems misguided.
Posted by Daumier at 1:45 PM

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