[aklug] Re: Xmonad (again) / Functional Programming

On 04/17/2011 07:18 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Friday 15 April 2011, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
>> Anyway, I'll try to lay off blabbing about Xmonad for a while. Right
>> now I'm going through a Haskell tutorial... don't know if I'll end up
>> being a Haskell programmer, but the little I've learned so far has
>> been quite interesting. I'm hoping that some of the ideas from this
>> "functional" programming paradigm will help me overcome some of the
>> challenges I face whenever I try to start a large programming
>> project. Seems like I often get mired down in dealing with all the
>> complexity in the interaction between the objects in the program as
>> well as the order of how issues should be resolved.
>
> Here's my take on OO/functional/procdural from few years back. My views
> haven't changed much, if any.
>
> http://jjncj.com/blog/archives/127-Objects-have-failed...maybe...kind-of.html
>
> j
>

Does Python support tail call optimization (that is, tail-recursive
functions without a growing stack)? Pretty important, I believe, for
serious functional programming. Apparently my Ruby 1.8 install doesn't
have it, but I think it is available in Ruby 1.9.

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