On 2004 December 03 Friday 15:16, GoldPython wrote:
until I joined this email list a couple weeks ago, I had never met another human being that knew what functional programming was
My experience has been different in Massachusetts. At my first job after my Comp Sci degree, developing compilers for a now-defunct minicomputer manufacturer, another developer stated that his favorite programming language was the pure subset of Lisp. These days when I go on site to interview for a job as a C++ programmer, usually at least one of the developers with whom I talk recognizes Haskell on my résumé and knows something of functional programming.
I've never even heard the topic mentioned
Granted, the average programmer can get along on just the information that comes out of the OOP/UML/IDE industry. But the people who brought templates to C++ and generics to Java made no secret of their knowledge of functional programming, and cited these capabilities as they existed in SML and/or Haskell.