C# As A Functional Programming Language
Najeeb Shaikh
Technical Communications Specialist | Developing API Documentation & UI Documentation | Documenting Business Processes | Strong Background In Software Engineering, Database Design, & Programming (C/C++/C#/Java/LISP/SQL)
{{ This is a re-published article: it first appeared on my personal blog in 2010. }}
If you have watched any of the videos on SICP recorded in MIT during the 1980s, you may already have a good idea of the intuitive way in which Lisp allows one to express the notion of program flow in a functional way. Recently, while viewing the lectures myself, I decided to implement some of the ideas as explained by Professor Sussman in the aforementioned video series. However, my language of choice is C#. As it turns out, C# does provide some very good facilities for expressing functional programs, and those of us from the C world should find it easier to relate to it without having to understand the unfamiliar parenthesized syntax that many perceive as one of the many quirks of Lisp, et al.
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