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Subject:    Re: [Haskell-cafe] I read somewhere that for 90% of a wide class of
From:       Sebastian Sylvan <sebastian.sylvan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-30 21:27:45
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin@btinternet.com>wrote:
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> (Mr C++ argues that homo sapiens fundamentally think in an imperative way,
> and therefore functional programming in general will never be popular. We
> shall see...)


You could use the same argument against, say, utensils. Being "natural" or
"intuitive" is a 100% irrelevant metric for any tool. What matters is if
it's effective or not.

-- 
Sebastian Sylvan

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Coppin <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andrewcoppin@btinternet.com">andrewcoppin@btinternet.com</a>&gt;</span> \
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(Mr C++ argues that homo sapiens fundamentally think in an imperative way, and \
therefore functional programming in general will never be popular. We shall \
see...)</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>You could use the same argument \
against, say, utensils. Being &quot;natural&quot; or &quot;intuitive&quot; is a 100% \
irrelevant metric for any tool. What matters is if it&#39;s effective or not. </div> \
<br>-- <br>Sebastian Sylvan<br>



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