Re:What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?
by rbehrends on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:32PM
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> Functional languages are an improvement in this respect over C/C++/Java etc with their explicit loop iteration statements.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Smalltalk had folding way back when (inject:into:). Higher order functions are not a specialty of functional programming; technically, even C has higher order functions, they're just more verbose because C doesn't support inline closure literals.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Smalltalk had folding way back when (inject:into:). Higher order functions are not a specialty of functional programming; technically, even C has higher order functions, they're just more verbose because C doesn't support inline closure literals.