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		mgreenbe on June 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Admitting that Functional Programming Can Be Awkwa... Right -- like Haskell, for example. Mixed paradigm programming is surely the way to go; ideology is surely the wrong way. C and OCaml both support mixed programming, but Haskell supports it better: monads allow you to isolate the side-effecting portions of your program. It's funny that the OP mentions Backus' FP, which had a "job control" language that functioned like the IO monad.

utx00 on June 16, 2009 [–]

or even adding an "n" in front of the function name goes a loooooooong (emphasis on the "o") way towards helping. nconc, nreverse ...

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