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The reports of my madness may not be so exaggerated.

posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 5:18 PM by mcfunley

Sometimes I think my quest to get my functional programming skills up to snuff is turning me into a raving lunatic. I keep writing code that inflicts physical pain when kept to myself. Here's a fresh cut and paste out of my emacs:
applyAll [] = id
applyAll fs = foldl1 (.) fs
After writing that, I immediately opened up all of my instant messenger programs in search of an imperative programmer to accost. "Don't you see? Don't you see how beautiful this is?" I would say. They almost never see.

Comments

# re: The reports of my madness may not be so exaggerated. @ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:53 PM

I see you found my new blog; thanks for the link.

My first real CS classes were taught in Scheme, which I didn't appreciate until I started to take Java. Are you plotting to secretly re-write the whole CapIQ platform in functional style and run your own rogue release one night?

  Ira Pfeifer

# re: The reports of my madness may not be so exaggerated. @ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:46 PM

Being a masochist, I think my goal is to get myself to the point that writing C# and/or Java feels like water torture. I'm almost there.

  Dan McKinley

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