Yeah, "Several beekeepers who were passing by stopped to aid the workers in controlling the bees."? I think there's more to this than meets the eye. Some kind of conspiracy, I'm just not sure what.

Perhaps one of the Beehive team was trying for some guerilla marketing but kinda fucked it up?

If it's got mutable variables or functions with side-effects, it just isn't functional programming at all, no two ways about it. Type inference is nice, though, I agree. And lambda calculus allows you to feel geekily superior, which I suppose you like.

Meh, it all seems like yet more pretty sprinklings of syntactic sugar, which I'm all for, I just took issue with it being called 'functional programming'.

I was going to make a dig at you being uneducated and having never gone to uni, and all that jazz, but going to Bracknell has killed all of my fighting spirit. I may never jibe again.

.meic | fruuti

Pedant. You can do stuff like currying and partial application, too.

Anyway, like I said, C# 3.0 has FP-ish elements, but I agree they're all pretty much syntactic sugar. Which is why I've got F# to play with too, because it's proper functional, being a .NET CLR implementation of CaML. You can actually do defines which allow mutable variables, but immutable is the default. And it does proper function list handling, without stacks and all that nonsense.