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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by jcelerier on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:45AM (#28521573)
I disagree, at school we studied both C and LISP during the same semester, writing a lot of similar things in procedural Vs functional styles... I can assure you that most people (who didn't have any programming exposure) really preferred C
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by Banana699 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:58AM (#28539976)
This data point is confounded by lisp's weird syntax, I would expect people not used to programming to hate the excessive indentation and nestedness that lisp's syntax does to expressions.
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by jcelerier on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:16AM (#28540200)
from my memories it was much more the equational thinking required which was a hard conceptual leap. Most people are really not used to it.
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