Of what use is 'lambda'???
Grant Edwards
ge at nowhere.none
Tue Sep 26 14:28:05 EDT 2000
In article <slrn8susbe.au.ssthapa at localhost.localdomain>, Suchandra Thapa wrote:
>Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:
>>- functional programmers are a bunch of academics who think up
>> impractical ideas like garbage collection, arbitrary-precision
>> numbers, massively parallel computers, and programming languages that
>> compile into hardware designs, while procedural programmers get real
>> work done, with a schedule and a budget to overrun. Real work like
>> payroll.
>
> That's not quite true since Ericcson uses their functional language
>Erlang to write software for their telecom gear and other mission critical
>stuff.
They must be some non-functional parts of the language. If
none of the functions have side-effects, then there's no way to
change the state of a telco switch for example. A telco switch
that can't change state isn't too useful.
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