On 1/23/08, Peter Hercek
Other things did not seem that great for me from the beginning. For example: referential transparency - just enforces what you can take care not to do yourself
...if you never make mistakes, that is.
(e.g. in C# you just cannot be sure some function is referentially transparent even when comment claims so - which of course sucks because programmers are not disciplined).
But if that's the point you're trying to make, I agree that a lot of programmers seem to think they don't make mistakes, and thus might not be receptive to the siren song of referential transparency :-) Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "You never have to aspire to difficulty, darling. It arrives, uninvited. Then it stays for dinner."--Sue Miller