Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gina Engli Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Dealing with higher order operations coupled with primitives Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:43:57 -0400 Organization: Grouches Anonymous Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <6s2dnZ1-8r4ofH7SnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: QMvkqwgQTSa35o56g4Mhjg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: NewsTap/3.5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15512 On 22/06/2012 2:36 AM, Fred Greer wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:31:54 -0400, Gina Engli wrote: > >> On 22/06/2012 12:32 AM, markspace wrote: >>> I'll agree with others: Haskell/Clojure seem a better fit. >> >> If the OP specifically wants to run on the JVM (to run in a servlet >> container, for instance, or to gain WORA easily) or have access to >> Java's large and useful standard library, Clojure, in particular, has >> the advantage of being JVM-hosted and providing said access. > > Also if he prefers to code in Java, as he can code the really functional > stuff in Clojure and the rest in Java since the two can be made to > interoperate easily. Yes, but why the hell would anyone prefer to code in Java? ;)