Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

> and everyone is familiar with "recipes", or step-by-step instructions... which is the same as imperative code, not functional.

everyone is familiar with "I don't know how exactly, but generally it would be this way..., we can discuss specifics later" which is the same as reading the above pointfree notation (sum . map read . words) verbatim instead of imperatively inside-out: something is a sum of all parsed values of space-separated words.






Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: