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Re:Practicing Elixir or any programming language by coltonv on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:36PM (#15095493)
It's important to be able to look at a problem and think "i bet I could find a function in the standard library that could help me solve this problem" or "I should just solve this from scratch with the basic functions I know, like map/filter/reduce/etc. So I disagree somewhat here.
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Re:Practicing Elixir or any programming language by ericdouglas on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:59AM (#15097552)
Yeah, that's the point: "i bet I could find a function in the standard library that could help me solve this problem"
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Re:Practicing Elixir or any programming language by coltonv on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:39AM (#15098763)
Yeah, in my opinion that's an important skill to have when learning a language. I already know how to write quicksort, writing it in Elixir will give me some sense of understanding of the language, but knowing how to find it in the standard library will make me more efficent of a programmer in Elixir.
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Re:Practicing Elixir or any programming language by ericdouglas on Sunday August 27, 2017 @07:55AM (#15110371)
Totally!
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