Functional Programming Languages

[TimberWolf]

Whoever named them "functional" is a retard ...

[AtW]

Was it you?!?!

[threaded]

Whoever named them "functional" is a retard or it's a sick joke - just search for my ranks in Technical, look for XSLT / XPATH keyrods

Yer problem though is looking at everything in an imperative way.

When the only tool is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.

One should embrace the concept of working in a multi-paradigm environment and use the correct language for the coding task to hand.

[AtW]

imperative way.

I like being an Emperor

[d000hg]

Don't Google use functional language for dealing with systems expecting huge numbers of concurrent users? It's still fringe, but if I had a lot of bench time F# is one thing I might put near the top of my list because if you could find a client needing F#, there won't be many of them.

[AtW]

if you could find a client needing F#, there won't be many of them.

There ain't many such clients and there won't be until they release Z# in 2210.

[TimberWolf]

There ain't many such clients and there won't be until they release Z# in 2210.

Every single one of us reading here will be dead in 2210. Most of us will be lucky to see 2050.

[AtW]

Every single one of us reading here will be dead in 2210. Most of us will be lucky to see 2050.

That's what I call short term planning - no wonder the West is going downhill...

[Moscow Mule]

One should embrace the concept of working in a multi-paradigm environment and use the correct language for the coding task to hand.

That's why everybody should use the iSeries and ILE EVERYTHING!

[NotAllThere]

How can you search on jobserve for F# opportunities?