At 7:42 AM -0600 7/25/09, Duke Normandin wrote:
My recent questions concerning "variables" spawned this observation:
I take it that programming a solution using a functional language like Haskell is really about "linking" a series of functions from which a solution is derived.
It seems to me that this approach would naturally encourage the use of the "bottom-up" method of program development. I mean, breaking the task down to the smallest possible segments, and then writing a function for each segment. Refactoring the task until the smallest segments are achieved. Very much like what I learned about programming in Forth (they use the term "words" to mean "function")
Am I on the right track here, in my view of the "Haskell approach" to programming solutions? -- duke
Yes, indeed. Haskell, like Forth but probably even more so, makes it easy and profitable to program small pieces that can be combined in ever-larger chunks. Dean