The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[Gour]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:13:45 +0100
Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> The biggest problems with monads are that most imperative programmers
> think they are some massive high magic that is incomprehensible to
> mere mortals, and  most functional programmers think they are simple
> and that they understand them.

Indeed.

> If you get higher order functions, currying and partial evaluation,
> then monads come naturally (*).

I believe I got HoFs, currying & partial evolution, but maybe I was
missing (*)

In any case, as it is often said, I got a feeling that despite its
potential cleanliness, the real-world Haskell code was not so readable.

By deploying some coding discipline, we tend to believe that D can serve
well as FP-language for the masses. :-)


Sincerely,
Gour

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