The Downfall of Imperative Programming

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Tue Apr 10 13:02:03 PDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:22 +0200, Gour wrote:
[...]
> 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.

That probably comes down to familiarity and personal taste.

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

Hummm... the really core issue is whether the language supports tail
call optimization.  Functional programming languages demand it, C, C++,
Java, Go, Python definitely don't have it, D...

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