From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:41:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iozpqs7f.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2321.1375374479.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> it has no ... no side effects
Perhaps not the functions, but the program must at least produce
some persistent result, otherwise why use it?
> no flow of control
Yeah?
> The functional programmer sounds rather like a medieval monk,
> denying himself the pleasures of life in the hope that it will
> make him virtuous.
Normally I like that sort of stuff, but in programming, it doesn't
fit because there are one million ways to do everything. There
isn't a true path. You can use iteration in SML and recursion in
C - just go nuts, as long as it works, and you enjoyed doing it. I
just can't see the paradigm be that decisive.
--
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
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2013-07-29 13:05 Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Emanuel Berg
2013-07-29 14:46 ` Jambunathan K
2013-07-30 10:10 ` Chris Van Dusen
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2013-07-30 22:09 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-07-29 15:37 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-29 16:01 ` Phillip Lord
2013-07-30 6:27 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-07-30 15:22 ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
2013-07-30 15:31 ` Aurélien DESBRIÈRES
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2013-07-30 16:44 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-30 18:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 18:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 11:38 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-07-30 11:47 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-07-30 11:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-29 19:38 ` Barry Margolin
2013-07-30 12:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 12:27 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-30 14:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-07-30 15:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 21:19 ` Barry Margolin
2013-07-30 21:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-31 4:47 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-31 6:23 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-31 18:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-31 19:19 ` drain
2013-07-31 19:20 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 14:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 15:21 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 15:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-08-01 16:08 ` Rustom Mody
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2013-08-01 20:48 ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-08-05 8:36 ` LaTeX (was: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?") Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 16:31 ` Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 16:18 ` Drew Adams
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2013-08-01 16:33 ` Barry Margolin
2013-08-01 17:52 ` Rustom Mody
2013-08-01 16:41 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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2013-08-01 14:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-08-01 15:19 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-08-01 18:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-08-01 20:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 15:34 ` Phillip Lord
2013-07-31 0:47 ` gottlieb
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2013-07-30 16:53 ` Rustom Mody
2013-07-31 0:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-31 12:10 ` Phillip Lord
2013-07-31 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-08-01 7:40 ` R development environment Sebastien Vauban
2013-08-01 10:44 ` Phillip Lord
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2013-07-31 0:51 ` Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Emanuel Berg
2013-07-30 21:50 ` Emanuel Berg
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