note Anonymous Monk <blockquote><i>The shift from programming in assembly language to programming with high level languages produced an order-of-magnitude increase in programmer productivity.</blockquote></i>...snip... <blockquote><i>Sorry. We've already been using FP long enough to know that it isn't the next silver bullet. </blockquote></i> Hmm. Are you sure there isn't another 10x productivity boost from functional languages? Or are you just refusing to see it? Take a web browser. Code one up in C. Then do the same thing in O'Caml. There you go. 450922 451236 6