Re: The Practical Benefits of the Relational Model
From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:36:49 +0200
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> None of which are necessary... all of which increase complexity. ;-)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:36:49 +0200
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Nathan Allan wrote:
> Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3D9DBF26.30101_at_hotmail.com>...
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>>Object oriented programming, >>generic programming, functional programming all these are based on higher >>order functions and higher order types .
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> None of which are necessary... all of which increase complexity. ;-)
I agree about OOP, and don't know anything about generic programming. But the little I know about functional programming shows it to be very simple, and if not strictly necessary yet useful and powerful enough to be necessary in the sense of "the most adequate solution" to several types of programming and systems engineering tasks.
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