[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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