One of the arguments I've heard against functional languages is that single assignment coding is too hard, or at least significantly harder than "normal" programming. But looking through my code, I realized that I really don't have many (any?) use patterns that can't be written just as well using single assignment form if you're writing...
Writing fast native applications, with API calls and etc, in a modern cross platform programming language like C# would be awesome, wouldn't it? For example if you want to write a simple utility for helping IT people with installing things, which wouldn't need another components, in an easy and modern programming language? or if you want...
I've been working with a lot of FORTRAN 77 lately, and though I had reservations at first, I now see some great qualities of the language. It is: Simple to learn (no object-oriented or functional-programming complications) Easy to read Blazing fast at number-crunching Those qualities are naturally attractive to non-programmer engine...