
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/10bd/dc49b85196aaa6715dd46843d9dcffa38358.pdf">https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/10bd/dc49b85196aaa6715dd46843d9dcffa38358.pdf</a></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Chapter 6.1<br><br>Jörg</div><div><br>Am 16.12.2016 um 08:51 schrieb Chris Burrows <<a href="mailto:chris@cfbsoftware.com">chris@cfbsoftware.com</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Oberon [<a href="mailto:oberon-bounces@lists.inf.ethz.ch">mailto:oberon-bounces@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a>] On Behalf Of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Srinivas Nayak</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Friday, 16 December 2016 4:36 PM</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: ETH Oberon and related systems</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [Oberon] Functional programming and Oberon</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I got interested towards functional programming, reading that it</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>favors concurrency and avoidance of mutation is the future...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>What is the reality?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I haven't seen much regarding this from Dijkstra, Wirth, Hoare and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>their friends...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>So what are language master's thoughts on this?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Wirth writes about Functional Programming on pages 66-67 of the paper that</span><br><span>Lars mentioned recently:</span><br><span></span><br><span>"Good Ideas, through the Looking Glass", IEEE Computer, Jan. 2006.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards,</span><br><span>Chris Burrows</span><br><span></span><br><span>CFB Software</span><br><span><a href="http://www.astrobe.com">http://www.astrobe.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch">Oberon@lists.inf.ethz.ch</a> mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems</span><br><span><a href="https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon">https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>