From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p9ECNGIH008196 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:23:16 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4IAIQpmE7V+6tl/2dsb2JhbABDqF5+B4FTAQEFOk8LRhQoIYgTt2aHDGEEpU4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,346,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="112910559" Received: from eneide.happyleptic.org ([213.251.171.101]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 14 Oct 2011 14:23:02 +0200 Received: from extranet.securactive.org ([82.234.213.170] helo=ccellier.rd.securactive.lan) by eneide.happyleptic.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1REgpU-0002e7-F5 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:25:36 +0200 Received: from rixed by ccellier.rd.securactive.lan with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1REgmw-0002VI-IB for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:22:58 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:22:58 +0200 From: rixed@happyleptic.org To: "caml-list@inria.fr" Message-ID: <20111014122258.GA9445@ccellier.rd.securactive.lan> References: <4E8B826E.2090904@frisch.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 'OCaml For the Masses' on Slashdot -[ Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 01:50:01PM +0200, Jean Krivine ]---- > "Procedural programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us do no > not think in a way that maps easily to functional programming. " > > That a very functional thought to me :) Don't you think procedurally ? If so, then skip until end of paragraph. Otherwise, do you think functionally ? If so, then you might want to break out of this discussion altogether. Else I suggest you do repeat "I'm part of the herd", and again. Note: I assert nobody should read this last sentence.