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Re:Why I Prefer Functional Programming by jjav on Sunday November 01, 2020 @02:04AM (#24957711)
> algebraic sense of wonder

I strongly identify with this view. Have always loved math. I remember writing a paper in middle school on how all of nature is built on math which ties closely with this quote "algebraic sense of wonder". My B.S. degree is in mathematics and I loved it.

And yet... I very strongly - no, extremely - dislike functional programming. When building concrete things, I love pragmatism above all else and to me functional is the diametrical opposite of that. A CPU has registers, instructions and addressable memory. Any abstraction that strays too far from that reality is a distraction (and maintenance burden) I don't want to deal with.

Re:Why I Prefer Functional Programming by phizy on Monday November 02, 2020 @12:13PM (#24970452)
The primary difference between computer science and mathematics proper is an overt concern for performance. Mathematical elegance and computational efficiency are not the same thing.

Haskell is a pretty awesome language, but it doesn't make it easy to incrementally optimize programs.