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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by mpfundstein on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @02:19AM (#12898322)
functional programming then? if you are into javascript, check fantasy-land
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by pathsjs on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:53AM (#12899198)
That has really little to do with mathematics...
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by mpfundstein on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:50PM (#12902866)
I don't agree. Did you ever take a good look into FP? Start with Functors and Monads and wander deep down the path to category theory...

But beware, you won't be able to function anymore in a JAVA OOP store :P

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for ... by pathsjs on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:09AM (#12911267)
Well, I am actually a mathematician. I knew cateogry theory well before I was even able to hack a web page with php and jquery. :-)

And still, I find that most of the abstractions that appear, say, in Haskell have little mathematical content. Even less so their imitation in Javascript. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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