On Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:08:22 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On 13/03/2014 03:09, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Call the action-world the 'imperative' world.
> > Call the value-world the 'functional' world ('declarative' would be
> > better but 'functional' is too entrenched).
> > [Following table meant to be read with fixed (courier) font]
> > | | Imperative | Functional |
> > | Language entity | Statement | Expression |
> > | Denote (and think with) | Action | Value |
> > | Abstracted into | Procedure | Function |
> > | Atoms are | Assignment | Constant/Variable |
> > | Data Structures | Mutable | Immutable |
> > | Loop primitive | Recursion | Iteration |
> > | World is | In time | Timeless (Platonic) |
> Small typo I think in that the looping Primitives are switched about?
Heh! I was hesitating to put that line at all: For one thing its a
hackneyed truth in the non-FP community. For another, in practical
Haskell, use of frank recursion is regarded as as sign of programming
immaturity:
http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
So I guess I ended up typing it in the wrong order!
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