Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[Emanuel Berg]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> it has no ... no side effects

Perhaps not the functions, but the program must at least produce
some persistent result, otherwise why use it?

> no flow of control

Yeah?

> The functional programmer sounds rather like a medieval monk,
> denying himself the pleasures of life in the hope that it will
> make him virtuous.

Normally I like that sort of stuff, but in programming, it doesn't
fit because there are one million ways to do everything. There
isn't a true path. You can use iteration in SML and recursion in
C - just go nuts, as long as it works, and you enjoyed doing it. I
just can't see the paradigm be that decisive.

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