On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 at 01:34PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > When arguing for Maple's language over the Mathematica language, they > say "Functional programs are often opaque; most people, even > experienced programmers, find functional-style programs to be > significantly harder to write, read, and debug."
Perhaps I'm biased because I'm taking the edX functional programming MOOC right now, but isn't one of the arguments *for* functional programming style is that it is easier to debug, since you can reason about each of your functions separately, without tracking the state? Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- www.math.wisc.edu/~ddrake/ -------
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