On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Conal Elliott
I have some speculations:
* In pure "OO" programming, everything is an object, so in pure "functional" programming, one might assume everything is a function. I find the term "value-oriented programming" a more accurate label than "functional programming".
First, I've to say that I'm not a language theorist in any way. That said, I think yours is indeed a good point, yet programs in Haskell are *strictly* expressed in terms of function applications, in contrast to other languages where programs are made up *mostly* of function invocations and other effectful statements, like assignments and IO. The fact that functions are values like any others is, at the same time, the beauty and the power of the functional paradigm. Cristiano