http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell. en-us Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:05:20 -0400 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:48:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss pbell@systemsforge.com pbell@systemsforge.com http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/11/26/On-Functional-Programming One of the many great things I took away from <a href="http://www.cfobjective.com/conference/">cf.objective()</a> last year was from a very interesting discussion with Sean Corfield. One of the things he strongly recommended was to learn a functional programming language like Haskell. The point he made (and I've heard this echoed by a bunch of other very smart programmers since) is that even if you don't end up using the functional language, it'll give you a whole new set of ways to think about solving problems that can be used in imperative languages. Given that, <a href="http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/18-Functional-languages-will-rule.html">here</a> is just a nice intro article about some of the benefits of functional languages. Anyone out there tried Scala? Anyone have any comments on approaches they learnt from a functional language that they've used to solve problems in CF? Functional Programming Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:48:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2006/11/26/On-Functional-Programming