Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why functional programming matters

catamorphism:

On 1/23/08, Peter Hercek wrote:

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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.

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(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 :-)

Yes, we have to talk more about it making the job "faster and easier", than "safer". It's a particular kind of programmer that likes things to be safer (i.e. people on this list :), but all kinds want their job to be faster and easier :) -- Don