Comments on: Why functional programming hasn’t taken off http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:42:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Yoav http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/comment-page-1/#comment-82094 Yoav Tue, 17 May 2011 03:19:37 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/#comment-82094 How about Clojure's approach - using the JVM as a platform and allowing full integration with Java - which means that a software project can have components written in Clojure (for the heavy lifting stuff) and Java for the rest. How about Clojure’s approach – using the JVM as a platform and allowing full integration with Java – which means that a software project can have components written in Clojure (for the heavy lifting stuff) and Java for the rest.

]]> By: So? http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/comment-page-1/#comment-29824 So? Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:35:16 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/#comment-29824 Functional programming is imperative programming taken to an extreme - abolishing state and side effects instead of minimizing them. OO is modularization taken to an extreme. Functional programming is imperative programming taken to an extreme – abolishing state and side effects instead of minimizing them. OO is modularization taken to an extreme.

]]> By: John Venier http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 John Venier Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:31:48 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/06/22/why-functional-programming-hasnt-taken-off/#comment-1759 Functional programming has to be cool because John Backus invented it :-D Same goes for Fortran. Seriously I've worked with what I understand are some of the functional programming features and they are cool and can make compilers more efficient. For example, working at the whole array level in SPlus and promising the compiler that a routine has no side effects. It is a whole other way of thinking though. Functional programming has to be cool because John Backus invented it :-D Same goes for Fortran.

Seriously I’ve worked with what I understand are some of the functional programming features and they are cool and can make compilers more efficient. For example, working at the whole array level in SPlus and promising the compiler that a routine has no side effects. It is a whole other way of thinking though.

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