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AOL User · 04-16-2003, 05:11 PM

Apparently, the administrators in my college have been shifting between functional (e.g., Scheme, Haskell) and imperative (e.g., Java, C++) programming languages in the comp sci intro courses. So naturally, there's been a debate of which type of language is better: functional or imperative?

I'm all for functional, especially Haskell, but there's too many people using imperative now. Maybe that'll change in the future...

04-16-2003, 05:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
AOL User Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1	Functional vs. Imperative Programming Apparently, the administrators in my college have been shifting between functional (e.g., Scheme, Haskell) and imperative (e.g., Java, C++) programming languages in the comp sci intro courses. So naturally, there's been a debate of which type of language is better: functional or imperative? I'm all for functional, especially Haskell, but there's too many people using imperative now. Maybe that'll change in the future...