Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:56:05 01/10/03
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On January 10, 2003 at 12:38:30, Dan Andersson wrote: >I tend to use high level languages for just the reason of brevity. Why on earth >write 1k lines when I can get away with 50-100 in a decent language. And the >number of bugs tend to be linear to the length of the program. And for testing >and developement of algorithms I use Forth. That gives me interactive testing. > >MvH Dan Andersson Dan, the *major* problem of functional languages apart from the slow speed and bad support to make good GUIs with them, a *crucial demand* nowadays, is the sheer problem of maintaining and extending big projects. If you write very big projects in functional languages you are in HELL. In C that is true too for bad programmers. In C++ even bad programmers get to some extend forced to code at least their objects a bit better. But good programmers in C/Fortran are unbeatable by any functional programmer at big projects. Maintaining big programs in functional programs is *impossible*. Best regards, Vincent
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