[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

On 10/11/10 15:17, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:49:15PM +0000, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>    
>> On 09/11/10 20:59, Nix wrote:
>>      
>>> On 8 Nov 2010, general told this:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> PS: My tutors thought it was a good idea to teach us ML instead of C,
>>>> thanks guys that was soooo useful!
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Excellent idea. It's a very different language from any you're likely to
>>> learn anywhere else, with some superb ideas in it, so it ensures that
>>> you learn at least two very different languages from different parts of
>>> the language family tree.
>>>        
>> That's fine in theory but in practice, compared to the imperative coding
>> I was used and OO coding I was being introduced to I found ML so oblique
>> and practically useless as to be nothing but frustrating, plus the book
>> cost £50 I could ill afford at the time. I'm still not convinced it has
>> any use at all in the real world.
>>      
> It took me a year or two of OCaml to realize that everything I learned
> about OO was wrong and an active hindrance to writing good,
> maintainable code.  I now rarely use any OO technique.
>
> Can't help you with the cost of the book though, sorry :-(
> The OCaml online tutorial that I wrote is free.
>
> Rich.
>
>    


Yes I have heard from several sources that OCaml is the best functional 
language out there, If I ever give one a try again it'll probably be that :)

Roger.
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