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Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by StavrosK on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:10PM (#12865844)
I had a gig once where my predecessor was a Haskell guy and had written Haskell-in-Javascript :( The comments were things like "this is a simple functor that produces a monad that, when curried to a function, will return a lambda that will do what we need".

Needless to say, I wrote zero lines of code during those two weeks, and the company shut down shortly after that.

Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by thatcat on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:14PM (#12867032)
So even if js is capable of being written with the structure of a functional language, doing so renders it incomprehensible to other js programmers?
Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by StavrosK on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:26AM (#12872329)
Eh, most languages are capable of being written functionally, but bringing a completely different language's idioms in results in unmaintainable code.

At the very least they needed to hire a Haskell dev, not a JS dev, even if the language itself was JS.

Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by dozzie on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:54PM (#12867857)
A sign of a good programmer is that he can write in Fortran in any language at hand.