The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[bearophile]

James Miller:

> I wish I could love Haskell, and for pure computer science, 
> it's fine, amazing even, but for real-world programming,
> it just doesn't cut it.

Haskell contains some ideas worth copying even in non-functional 
languages (or in mixed languages as D).

Enforced purity and immutability, lazy immutable lists, pattern 
matching, tuples and their various unpacking syntax, list 
comprehension, structural algebraic types, built-in currying and 
partial application, and so on, are handy and allow to express 
certain computing idioms in a succinct and clear way (and not 
every part of a program needs the same runtime efficiency). Scala 
language shows that you can put several of those things in a 
language that supports mutability too.

Bye,
bearophile