Real Programming in Functional Languages
James H. Morris · 2010
The established properties of functional languages-easy to define semantics and mathematical elegance---are appealing to meta-programmers who study programming and programs at one remove. Most people believe that functional programming is inappropriate for real programmers who write programs that are judged on their behavior rather than their appearance. We shall explore this question by considering experience with two languages, Poplar and Euclid, that have a claim to being functional languages and to being used on real problems-string processing and system programming, respectively.