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From: sestoft@gere.diku.dk (Peter Sestoft)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: functional vs. procedural languages
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Date: 17 Aug 90 08:07:01 GMT
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mallsop@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop (8597)) writes:


>	I'm new to functional programming and trying to find information on
>the advantages and disadvantages of functional vs. procedural languages.
>	Could anyone out there either point me to books, information
>available by FTP or other information on this topic? Or maybe a summary
>of points??  At the moment, I'm pretty stuck.....

See John Hughes: Why functional programming matters, The Computer Journal 
32, 2 (April 1989) 98-107 and other papers in that special issue of the 
Computer Journal (Cambridge University Press).

Peter Sestoft
Peter Sestoft  *  sestoft@diku.dk   *   DIKU,  Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
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