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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by stmartin on Saturday August 20, 2011 @02:33PM (#2907328)
"I think it is a lot about the way you think"

Brother, you are on the money with that statement. But the MINUTE I make a religion out of the way _I_ or a bunch of eclectics uber-geeks think, is the minute you bring about the demise and distaste of that particular paradigm of thinking.

I can relate to the 'way of thinking' better than these stupid religious arguments about FP. Did you know you can program in an OO fashion in C? Or even in Lisp, if you really cared to? You could also write a very 'functional' program in C if you really wanted to.

Why is everything black and white with geeks, is beyond my wildest dreams - but it just points to a lack of mature thinking.

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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by MrKurtHaeusler on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:38PM (#2907489)
Common Lisp at least has full support for object-orientation. You don't have to roll it yourself like with C.
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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by stmartin on Saturday August 20, 2011 @04:12PM (#2907598)
Which is why I find CL more appealing to my palate...
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