"Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant"

Re:"Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant" by hello_moto on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:26AM (#1471490)

Programming Language is like Software Development Methodology: it works well in certain area but doesn't fit well in generalization.

There are evangelists and purists in both world.

Here's a challenge for all evangelists and purists: you keep telling people that your thing is the right way to go, but when I ask you to learn my thing, you refuse like a mad man.

IT is a very funny industry, people keep telling you that we change the world, we have the power, we have the edge, we're the future or whatever. But at the end of the day, don't tell us to change ourselves.

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Re:"Study Functional Programming or Be Ignorant" by paulgb on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:05AM (#1471614)

Maybe I don't get out enough, but I've never met a Haskell programmer with that mentality (LISPers, maybe). All the Haskellers I know are pragmatic people who will use another language (usually Python, I guess because iterators feel a lot like lazy lists) when it's the right tool for the job.

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