tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22587889.post114495403621242575..comments2024-02-11T13:21:47.930+05:30Comments on Ruminations of a Programmer: Functional Programming for the Masses - Are We Ready For It ?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01613713587074301135noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22587889.post-1144992510999262592006-04-14T10:58:00.000+05:302006-04-14T10:58:00.000+05:30I can tell you first hand coming from the Java wor...I can tell you first hand coming from the Java world that understanding some of the ideas behind functional programming can be tough... Monads in particular have been giving me a hard time. Things are starting to come clear after reading things like this:<BR/><BR/>http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/monads.html<BR/><BR/>I'm still not 100% sure that these ideas will go mainstream... I need to read that article to see how much is exposed to the developer with LINQ. Function programming, etc. is definitely a different world from the regular corporate developer paradigms that have become popular, so we'll see how it goes over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com