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Recent, research in GIScience proposes to use functional programming for geospatial application development [1–5]. Their main argument is that many of theoretical problems in GIScience can be expressed as algebraic theories. For these problems, functional languages enable fast development of rigorous and testable solutions [2]. However, developing a GIS in a functional language is not feasible, since many parts needed for a GIS are already avaliable in imperative languages such as C++ and Java. This is especially true for spatial databases, where applications such as Post- GIS/PostgreSQL offer a basic support for spatial data management. It is unrealistic to develop such support using functional programming.
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Costa, S.S., Câmara, G., Palomo, D. (2007). TerraHS: Integration of Functional Programming and Spatial Databases for GIS Application Development. In: Davis, C.A., Monteiro, A.M.V. (eds) Advances in Geoinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73414-7_8
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