Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't worry - there will be a state transformation monad for you! > > Nature or nurture? it would be interesting to see some identical twin > studies on novice programmers. Since few of us were exposed first > to strictly functional programming, though, you have to wonder. In > its day, goto was of course very well loved.
Guy Steele used to describe functional programming -- the evaluation of lambda-calculus without side effects -- as "separation of Church and state", a highly desirable situation ;-). (For non-FP nerds, the above is a pun referring to Alonzo Church, who invented lambda calculus in the 1920's or so). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
