7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
6:21 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Toby Thain wrote:
This is also a joke right? You've *never* encountered a technological zealot
or a shill?
--
Jason
Sent from my DEC 3000
On 06/06/13 11:02 PM, Mouse wrote:
This is a joke, right?
It really is a different way of thinking that's not easy for some folks to
pick up. I'm interested to hear your your approach which makes
functional programming simple and easy.
FP is an important tool, both for the sake of the
tasks it _is_ a good
fit for and for the sake of the mind expansion learning it produces (in
those who do manage to get their heads around it).
It's simple to teach and use.
But to
dogmatically
declare it an advance in pretty much any task-independent practical
metric is to drink some rather unrealistic ivory-tower koolaid.
I've never actually seen anyone do that, but it's a popular strawman.
--T