Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about it)

Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by silentbicycle on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @09:34AM (#1020519)

This is one of a series of posts by someone with decades of experience doing game programming. He's also very fond of Erlang (he's been using it since 1999!), and he's exploring how well it works for a domain he knows, but which is quite far from Erlang's typical niche.

Try reading it (and his archives, at http://prog21.dadgum.com/archives.html ) in that light. It's not just somebody ranting about how FP is junk after halfheartedly trying to learn Haskell. The "Purely Functional Retrogames" series is particularly good.

I would love to see more blogs that have people seriously evaluating how "newer"* languages hold up for real work, not just page-sized Greenfield projects. As he puts it, "Timidity does not convince." (http://prog21.dadgum.com/35.html).

* I know, Erlang isn't that new.

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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by Davertron on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @01:06PM (#1020907)

I just read all of the "Purely Functional Retrogames" posts, and was sorely disappointed that there's no source. Did I miss something here? The posts were interesting on a high level, but basically gave me blue-balls.

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