On Wednesday 14 November 2007 10:55, luc.taesch wrote:
do not expect it to be a lead to mass expansion for tommorow...
I think the functional programming market is far from saturated though: there are still many inroads to make into areas like technical computing that stand to benefit a lot from functional languages but require unconventional characteristics (like complex literals, vector and matrix routines, visualization etc.). When functional languages achieve these goals I believe the total number of users will increase dramatically as scientists and engineers adopt them alongside their standard tools. Bioinformaticians are among the first to adopt functional programming languages but I believe more mainstream natural sciences will follow. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e