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From: sean@castle.ed.ac.uk (S Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: Industry-Strength Rapid Prototyping with Functional Prog?
Message-ID: <9309@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Mar 91 13:58:31 GMT
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paul@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul Bailes (P.A.)) writes:

>...  made a prerequisite for our advanced-level (3rd year)
>Software Engineering project, the grounds being that FP (and LP) are good for
>Rapid Prototyping.

>PLEASE can anyone supply me with examples/references to

This is interesting.  Why do you think that functional programming is
good for this sort of thing if you cannot quote evidence from which you
have concluded that it is good for this sort of thing (apart from
faith---halleluja praise the Lord (Alonzo Church in this case I
suppose)). 

I do not blame your colleagues for being unconvinced.  Deciding
arbitararily that something is the case, and then looking for evidence
to support that proposition is not exactly good methodology. 

Sean

P.S.  This is not a criticism of functional programming, just a
criticism of a suspect belief system.