Bo102010 comments on Are Functional languages the future of programming? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bo102010 09 April 2011 02:25:46PM *  0 points [-]

In the end, every programming language, no matter how pure and pretty, gets turns into a bunch of loads, stores, and gotos...

I find that there's a lot of good techniques to be learned from FP, but the supposed mathematical purity of it kind of bores me.

(http://docs.python.org/py3k/howto/functional.html) has some nice tricks in Python.