22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by VLM on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:50AM (#13652807)

There's a continuum of restriction of style. The Python guys say the same thing about Perl. "We can handle our diversity, but the Perl guys are completely out of control so I don't know how anyone can handle that."

Imagine being a clothing designer and told to make something. The output could be anything from Beyonce's grammy dress to a famous deceased CEO who wore black turtlenecks all the time. That extreme diversity of style is both the greatest strength and the greatest weakness of allowing a wide allowable spectrum of style. On the other hand a men's business suit tailor is much more restricted in that everything kinda looks the same which makes things both very easy to muddle thru and very difficult to stand out at the same time.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by willtim on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:23AM (#13653112)

I'm not sure I like your clothing analogy, it implies that Haskell deliverables are somehow restricted in functionality, which isn't true. The "style" that Haskell prohibits is hiding side-effects and mutable state behind something that pretends to be a function. If you are honest and upfront about what you are doing, i.e. you fully understand what you are doing, then Haskell has no problem letting you do it.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by VLM on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:02PM (#13655319)

I actually agree with you and any disagreement we have is solely my fault, as that's mostly what I was trying to write.

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