Re:What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?
by tome on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:12AM
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It's fair enough if those are your needs but I think your comment would be better expressed as "For the sorts of programming I do I want to add to a list or change a map's value". Otherwise you give uninformed people the impression that Haskell cannot be used for "real world" programming. It can be and it is.
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Re:What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?
by lz400 on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:20AM
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Ok you are right, now that I read what I wrote it could be interpreted that way and it wasn't my intention at all. I know Haskell can be used for real world programming because I own a book called "real world haskell" :) I was abusing the expression to put forward a case in which I believe the mutable thinking comes across as more natural (imo).