Ask HN: Is functional programming inherently difficult?

Posted by adgasf on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Functional programming is very popular on HN, but less so in the wider developer community. Many consider functional programming "hard". But is functional programming actually difficult, or is this merely a symptom of developers learning procedural languages first?

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Re:Ask HN: Is functional programming inherently difficult? by Pishky on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:38AM (#12805989)

It is more difficult than OOP because of its strong association with mathematics (ie category theory and logic). Without this background knowledge it becomes like a magic black box with monads, monoids, applicatives..etc etc

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Re:Ask HN: Is functional programming inherently difficult? by Pishky on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:50AM (#12806117)

The human brain understands objects more intuitively rather than abstract mathematical objects.

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