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On Mar 14, 11:19*am, Andy Champ <no....@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> I came across this in a job advert: "Experience of both functional and
> Object Oriented design and engineering is essential as the product is
> evolving from following a functional to an OO design discipline". I was
> a bit surprised at this - I know little of functional programming (in
> the Erlang/Haskell etc sense, which I assume is what they mean) but I'd
> thought it was a newer paradigm.

does newer mean better? Functional programming is probably much older
than you think, when was lambda calculus invented?

> This as a discussion doesn't really belong here - can anyone suggest a
> suitable newsgroup? *I did look at comp.programming, but it doesn't look
> healthy.

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:33:13 -0700, Nick Keighley wrote:

> does newer mean better? Functional programming is probably much older than
> you think, when was lambda calculus invented?

1932.

But functional *programming* isn't that old. Lisp was invented in 1958,
and that's only tenuously related to the lambda calculus. The first
languages to be fundamentally based upon such principles appeared
in the early 1970's (ML, FP, SASL).