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Re:A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated by knieveltech on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:52AM (#1471780)
Java (being rife with academic shitheadery itself) may not have been the best choice if you're trying to suggest the author doesn't have a point.
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Re:A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated by yummyfajitas on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @12:18PM (#1471864)
I picked Java because a) I know where to find it, b) the author mentions Java positively and c) the C++ standard costs $18.

Any formal language spec will look ugly and hard to read. That's just the nature of formal specs.

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Re:A Bit of Heresy: Functional Languages are Overrated by sprout on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @02:24PM (#1472279)
R5RS is a pretty light read.
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