Functional Programming Languages

[AtW]

This might help you AtW

Yes modularity, OOP is fine - calling "functional" language that is actually disfunctional isn't right.

[Churchill]

This might help you AtW

Code reuse?

A myth.

[AtW]

Code reuse? A myth.

SKA very heavily reuses code.

[Swati]

I usewd haskell on my M.Sc dissertation while I was studying in unibersity. The challege was to amimate a stick man and have stick man run across screen of a vt100 terminal session.. I can tell you now that it was not an easy undertaking though I did complete the undertaking with success. This was the last time I used a functional programming language.

[Churchill]

SKA very heavily reuses code.

Within your application it probably does, that's not what I am referring to.

[sasguru]

My final year project at uni over 20 years ago was in Lisp ( a chess program)
A fine language, albeit I never came across it again in the commercial world.

[Scary]

Yes modularity, OOP is fine - calling "functional" language that is actually disfunctional [sic] isn't right.

Please learn what functional means in terms of functional programming before commenting further.

You can start with the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia:

Functional programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions"

Function (mathematics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So it is perfectly legitimate to call functional programming functional programming, even if it isn't a paradigm you wish to adhere to.

[sasguru]

Please learn what functional means in terms of functional programming before commenting further.

You can start with the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia:

Functional programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions"

Function (mathematics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So it is perfectly legitimate to call functional programming functional programming, even if it isn't a paradigm you wish to adhere to.

AtW yakking on from a position of pig ignorance?
Who'd have thunk it?

[AtW]

So it is perfectly legitimate to call functional programming functional programming, even if it isn't a paradigm you wish to adhere to.

No, it is not legitimate to omit a material qualifier from the name.

"Imperative" programming is functional because it works just fine in real world.

This "functional" programming should be called (in absence of a better word) - Retarded.

Hence, F# should be renamed to be R#. Though I give them that in their documentation they mention that they do support "imperative" programming - that made me real hard because it was clear admission that retarded concepts like calling "variable" something that is clearly a constant, forcing to do ridiculous recursions to do simple jobs, not having arrays that can be directly and efficiently accessed etc etc etc.

[AtW]

In FORTRAN.

Fortran was old when I started programming, and that was 20 years ago...