[Discuss] Functional programming @ UVic (was 'C' string tokenizer
for those who hate strtok)
Adam Parkin
pzelnip at telus.net
Sat Jul 1 08:46:42 PDT 2006
Daniel M. German wrote:
> taras> Most academics these days are stuck on OO. Only the smart ones are into
> taras> functional programming :) That's why they don't teach functional
> taras> programming in first year in crappier universities.
>
> where does that leave me :( I do most of my work in SQL, Perl and
> C. Am I a dinosaur? :)
Yup, fraid so. ;) Time to join the "next generation" and ditch Perl for
Python, C for Ocaml, and SQL well, for something other than SQL (I can't
think of any alternative for that one, guess I must be getting a bit
older too...)
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Adam Parkin
E-mail: pzelnip at telus.net
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