Re: Testing job applicants

[Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com>]

In comp.arch.embedded Torsten Poulin <torsten@diku.antispam.dk> wrote:

> Miranda and its more mature sibling Haskell are great fun playing
> around with.

I used to *enjoy* functional programming, but could never really see sensible
applications for it -- back in the 80s most non-Lisp FP seemed to be
writing compilers for whatever toy language was in vogue. Haskell seems
to have made FP a useful tool though -- I've been very impressed by a
Haskell program that generates neat little PostScript "railroad diagrams"
from YACC grammars, and one of my colleagues has managed to simulate
some of the schedulability analysis algorithms we're in the process of
implementing in C++ in Haskell as a feasibility study -- it really does
look like FP's (in the sense of the term that means anything that isn't
Lisp :)) matured in the decade or so since I last did anything with it.

pete
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