Any Functional Programmers in Biology ???

[Georg Fuellen]

I'm looking for experiences folks may have using functional 
programming in biocomputing. 
I'd also be very happy about any comments you may have about this.
Do not hesitate, reply today !

(For more info about functional programming, see the FAQ of
the comp.lang.functional newsgroup. Basically, instead of 
"total = 0; for (i=1; i<=10; ++i) total += i;" (in imperative
programming) you evaluate the function sum [1..10]
and the compiler takes care of efficient code generation,
and you're usually introducing less bugs, because there are
no side-effects)

    (I hope you dont see this twice, yesterday's post didnt get thru)
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  georg
fuellen at Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
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