Pro-Erlang/pro-functional programming papers

David Hopwood david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED
Wed May 17 20:42:12 CEST 2006


Matthew McDonnell wrote:
>>>Do you guys have any good pro-Erlang/pro-functional programming
>>>paper/articles (read propaganda) lying around somewhere?
> 
> If you're selling the functional side of things then look at the paper
> "Why Functional Programming Matters" by John Hughes
>   	http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html

Note that some of the arguments in this paper are specific to languages
that support built-in lazy evaluation, which Erlang does not have.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED>





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