The Functional Language Gateway Drug

Posted by: youve been HAACKED, on 16 Feb 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Alternate Title: Linq, its not just for SQL. I admit, Im not very proficient with functional programming. It almost feels like a gang war at times - on one side of the tracks is Turings crew, sporting their imperative ways. On the other side is the Church group, luring wayward souls onto their turf with the promise of code salvation in the form of functional language. Matt Podwysocki is one of those Church evangelists, constantly reaching out to me, a lost soul, with the promises of eternal code...

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