It’s strange what people put up with in C#

Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by nottorp on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:21AM (#24167734)

I read that as "i'm complaining that C# isn't a functional language" ?

Funny that the counterexamples are from F# which also runs on the dot niet platform? And you could concievably mix and match them in the same project?

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by mattmanser on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:33AM (#24167829)

Funnily enough, he's the language designer for F#.

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by nottorp on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:58AM (#24167957)

Hmm I would have never guessed from the tone of the article...

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by orthoxerox on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:44AM (#24168166)

Wow, it was Don Syme. Well, everyone has bad hair days.

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by Kuinox on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:08AM (#24168007)

In his tweet he toned it down later: https://twitter.com/dsymetweets/status/1294279873834491905

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by xupybd on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:27AM (#24167772)

You can but the business case for introducing F# can be tricky. It's a better developer experience but due to the difficulty (or perceived difficulty) in hiring F# developers it's seen as a liability.

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by oaiey on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:40AM (#24167863)

And to add: the existing imperative/oo programming workforce is of no use.

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