Time to Get Good At Functional Programming?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 5, 2008 @12:23PM from the dysfunctional-programming-on-the-way-out dept.

prone2tech writes "From an article at Dr. Dobb's: Chipmakers have essentially said that the job of enforcing Moore's Law is now a software problem. They will concentrate on putting more and more cores on a die, and it's up to the software industry to recraft software to take advantage of the parallel-processing capabilities of the new chips. As is argued in this article, this means becoming proficient in parallel functional programming. The bad news? Getting good at functional programming is hard, harder than moving from iterative Pascal or Basic or C coding to object-oriented development. It's an exaggeration but a useful one: When you move to FP, all your algorithms break.'"

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Re:Broken Algorithm BS by dubbreak · 2008-12-05 13:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

(the) Article is pure shit.
I could have sworn I saw a few kernels of corn and a peanut or two in there.

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Re:Convince your boss. by mechsoph · 2008-12-05 18:08 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Power is a technical term with a specific meaning, and any self-respecting nerd should know that. If you're talking about something else, you'd better qualify the term.