On Dec 29, 2007 10:32 AM, Andrew Coppin
Luke Palmer wrote:
OO is orthogonal to functional. Erlang is pure functional, Lisp is a bastard child...
1. Wasn't Lisp here first? (I mean, from what I've read, Lisp is so old it almost predates electricity...)
Before the concepts of OO, functional, and imperative? Well, certainly before OO -- the other two... perhaps.
2. I'm curios as to how you can have a functional OO language. The two seem fundamentally incompatible:
See O'Caml, O'Haskell. I'd call those OO functional languages. You may reject state from OO and still have something which is quite close to OO. But it's a matter of minor semantics now I think...
3. I know very little about Erlang, but the Haskell wiki claims it is not pure functional. (This agrees with the small amount of Erlang I do know.)
I don't know any erlang. Someone in freenode.net#erlang things erlang is pure functional :-) Luke