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Re:"Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant" by pietrofmaggi on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:06AM (#1471419)
Knowing functional programming surely makes you a better programmer, as knowing lisp do (even if you could never use in your projects).

But when I see post like this I always think to Fred Brooks' "There's no silver bullet" paper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet).

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Re:"Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant" by hello_moto on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:23AM (#1471479)
Knowing something new will make you a better person.

If an OO programmer never knew functional programming, yeah, sure, he'll be a better programmer after learning LISP and I think the vice-versa is also true, a functional programmer who never bother learning OO because he thinks his paradigm is the silver bullet will benefit more knowledge if he decided to learn OO.

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