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              Still nothing much to see unless you're a programmer
                                        
> Those of us who deal with programming and are suspicious enough to see that
> our daily professional life could be improved, are often confronted with
> functional programming. There is a great misunderstanding going on
> regarding what functional programming is and what are its benefits, and
> where and how imperative programming is wrong. Supporters of functional
> programming claim it is the best thing since slice bread, but I beg to
> differ, and that's why I decided to write this blog.
> 

“A sincere comment on functional programming [1]”

Yet another article about programming, related to the post on Tuesday [2].

I have a bunch of thoughts on this, but they're all half-formed, and I've
already spent over two hours trying to get something coherent written, but
haven't. This will have to wait until another day.

Update around 1:30 am Friday, Debtember 8^th, 2006

Of course, in writing that post, I forgot to mention Coverity [3] (link via
Flutterby [4]), which appears to be a form of lint on steroids. It's a
commercial product based off the Meta-Level Compilation Project [5]. Pity
that it's already gone commercial, but at least they give an indication of
what it can do [6] (Mark would probably say something like, “Finding bugs in
Linux? Isn't that like shooting fish in a barrel?”).


Update a few minutes later

My thoughts were so unfocussed that I found vocalless music too distracting.


[1] http://warp9point99.blogspot.com/2006/11/sincere-comment-on-
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/12/05.1
[3] http://www.coverity.com/
[4] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/9570.html
[5] http://metacomp.stanford.edu/
[6] http://metacomp.stanford.edu/linux/list.php3

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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