[Haskell-cafe] Haskell#? F#?

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Mon Sep 14 16:15:10 EDT 2009


caseyh:
> The other morning, someone was telling me they had converted most of
> their VB financial/stock market code to F#.
> Whereas VB only used one core, the F# code used all four cores.
> 
> In one software developers meeting, someone was saying that since
> database work is mostly all state, he didn't see the advantage of a
> functional programming language.

State /= Imperative Programming

:-)

-- Don


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