Re: Functional Programming Style?

Beyond that. Anything to suggest? The requirement is for a peer-peer agent-based situation-theoretic backward-chainer with quasirealtime browser feedback. A functional paradigm is indicated, with monads and all that. All the rest of the site is PHP-driven, so it could make sense to do as much as possible (on the server side) in php. It looks on the surface that if we stay away from arrays. and we make all functions side-effect free (essentially no overlapping internal variables) and we center the state of results on the browser (a natural for php), then we will be much of the way there, especially if we carefully limit scope as much as possible. Since we have language heaviweights on the list, thought perhaps there would be some insights into this. Thought also, that the list would appreciate a different question than the same old, same old, same old... Best, Ted

Argh Haskell - All the bad memories come flooding back. On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Ted Goranson wrote: Hello-- Is PHP suitable for programming in a Haskell-like fashion? Is there existing information on how to do this?

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