From: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Bros <nicolas.bros@gmail.com>,
"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>,
Adam Richardson <simpleshot@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 'OCaml For the Masses' on Slashdot
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111014123026.GB5174@siouxsie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEQoNCmRVX=8P9Z0NhH729KeXiOc6Mt6H8_Ou4wC-_0t1pZDYA@mail.gmail.com>
There is a theory (or just hypothesis) on different brains and
therefore thinking styles: predictive vs. functional.
So... maybe, if these ways of thinking are "built in" into
the brains (genetically?), then some people will be
functional programmers and others not ;-)
Ciao,
Oliver
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 01:50:01PM +0200, Jean Krivine wrote:
> In the comments:
> "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 :)
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Nicolas Bros <nicolas.bros@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If a great OCaml guru/teacher wrote a great book, I'm sure it would have
> >> great sales on Amazon (I'd buy it :)
> >
> >
> > You may want to read this book :
> > http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html
> >
> > It is the english translation of the french book "Développement
> > d'applications avec Objective Caml":
> > http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/Livres/ora/DA-OCAML/index.html
> > http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841771210
> >
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 22:02 Alain Frisch
2011-10-05 2:16 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2011-10-05 5:00 ` Adam Richardson
2011-10-06 17:05 ` Nicolas Bros
2011-10-14 11:50 ` Jean Krivine
2011-10-14 12:22 ` rixed
2011-10-14 12:30 ` oliver [this message]
2011-10-14 12:36 ` oliver
2011-10-15 10:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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