Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy

Re:Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy by PhilWright on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:28AM (#20562145)

The author is often found bashing OOP and praising FP. It's his hobby horse. Every time he needs a few clicks on his blog, up comes the 'OOP is a disaster!'.

It's a wonder the world has managed to survive with the billions of lines of OOP out in the wild, running the world!

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Re:Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy by abc_lisper on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:56AM (#20562418)

Yeah, if it was FP it would be millions instead of billions.

The point being, there is nothing special about oops or any other new concept which resembles poorly defined real world semantics. Math, patterns are the masters here. And everything should be amenable to computation ie things like reflection should be part of the language and not treated like a carefully handled baby. As soon as that is met, everything naturally collapses into repeating patterns. And we can apply powerful theorems of math we have accumulated over centuries to the work at hand

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