Functional Programming Languages

[AtW]

A fine language, albeit I never came across it again in the commercial world.

WHS

The reality is that "imperative" languages that do a lot of useful functions in the real world map over well to existing well entrenched hardware architectures. You'd need to design new CPU for this piece of tulip that requires massive recursions etc etc etc - Intel won't do it, and there is nobody else left to do it in a meaningful scale (beyond labs and very niche jobs).

[Churchill]

It was old when I started using it 30 odd years ago.

Still around though*.



*despite the fact that I can no longer understand the syntax of the last 3 revisions.

The Salford compiler is free... As in beer...

[sasguru]

WHS

The reality is that "imperative" languages that do a lot of useful functions in the real world map over well to existing well entrenched hardware architectures. You'd need to design new CPU for this piece of tulip that requires massive recursions etc etc etc - Intel won't do it, and there is nobody else left to do it in a meaningful scale (beyond labs and very niche jobs).

Hmmm not convinced about the hardware argument.
Horses for courses.
If you were using advanced artificial intelligence techniques on your crappy search engine you may well have found that functional programming languages are better for stuff like tree traversal, alpha-beta pruning etc i.e. stuff necessary for cutting edge decision-making software as opposed to bog standard data processing

[AtW]

functional programming languages are better for stuff like tree traversal, alpha-beta pruning etc i.e. stuff necessary for cutting edge decision-making software as opposed to bog standard data processing

On normal hardware (x86-64) "functional" languages will be converted to "imperative" language of opcodes - the question is whether such mapping will be efficient which I think is impossible because programmer has no control over what happens: I've done plenty of tree traversal using very efficient memory techniques, you won't beat direct memory access with pointers performance wise.

[d000hg]

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.

It's not our fault you don't understand English. Quick lesson... the same word can have different meanings. 'functional' refers to mathematics, where we have functions, in this case.

Boring now, what's next? SOAP's a bad name because it's not clean?

[AtW]

SOAP's a bad name because it's not clean?

It's clearly a made up acronym which is an indication it does not actually mean it is a soap.

[sasguru]

It's clearly a made up acronym which is an indication it does not actually mean it is a soap.

God you're thick.
Do you know what a mathematial function is?

[AtW]

Do you know what a mathematial function is?

No. What's "mathematial"?

I do know your function though - wind people up on here for laughs whilst being paid by your employer!

[Churchill]

no. What's "mathematial"?

I do know your function though - wind people up on here for laughs whilst being paid by your employer!

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[sasguru]

No.

So this whole thread is based on your basic ignorance of what "functional" means in this context.
You reallly are an idiot savant without the savant bit.