• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Mukul Gandhi'" <gandhi.mukul@g...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:47:04 -0000

> I agree that functional languages are quite useful. But I 
> think the problem is, many of the underlying hardware 
> architectures are von Neumann based. von Neumann machines 
> work best with imperatives programs (languages).

If we believed that we would all still be writing in Assembler, or at any
rate using GOTO statements.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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