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Re:Alan Kay and OO Programming by pingucrimson on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:01PM (#19971426)
What does "functional" mean to you? If "OO" has a hundred different meanings, then "functional" must have at least a thousand. To me, JavaScript is definitely not functional - it lacks a notion of purity, and its meaning is the evaluation of statements, not the construction of expressions.
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Re:Alan Kay and OO Programming by Pop2019 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:18PM (#19971617)
My point was popular languages attract masses of developers and the resulting quality of code is poor on average.
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Re:Alan Kay and OO Programming by pingucrimson on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:28PM (#19971713)
That's a good point, but it's not implied by "JavaScript is functional and oh boy!" at all.
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