ndmitchell: > Hi > > >That's exactly the problem! For most people there *is* no difference. > >You say "functional programming" to most people, even professional > >programmers, and usually the only chance you have of getting them to > >understand what what you mean is by asking "so, have you heard of > >Lisp, or Scheme?" > > Talking to professional programmers, if I tell anyone I program in > Haskell they nearly always say "oh, Pascal, that's cool". No one knows > what functional programming is, Scheme/Lisp are the closest. Maybe we > should try and hijack the phrase functional programming - Haskell is > just too similar to Pascal.
Who wants to join the Lisp is not functional programming movement with me? -- Don "If it ain't pure, it ain't functional" Stewart _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
