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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by Torwald on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:54AM (#21281037)
I'd rather have a baking class that takes an argument for what I want to bake, either bread or cake, and spares me the details of how baking is done. I don't have to know that a preheated oven is one that is at 175 grades etc
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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by EpicEng on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:50AM (#21282646)
And when your oven has a problem with it's heating element you'll have no idea why your cake didn't turn out well. We're supposed to be engineers, right? Learning how things work is good.
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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by Torwald on Saturday October 19, 2019 @12:49PM (#21299373)
My comment was supposed to be a joke about the vernacular in which OO tends to get presented.
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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by TomMarius on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:14AM (#21281162)
But then your cake might easily burn.
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