Re:Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way
by Ralith on Monday March 26, 2012 @03:19AM
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Not all functional languages run on the JVM or anything similar. In fact, most don't. See: Haskell, *ML, most Lisps and Schemes, ...
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Re:Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way
by jes5199 on Monday March 26, 2012 @04:11PM
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yeah, it's true. But I still think it's much harder to compose two functional programs running in separate processes than to write one monolithic program composing functional libraries.
Compare to perl, where piping text is so simple that chaining perl scripts with pipes is no harder than writing functions.