Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good

Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by dasil003 on Sunday August 21, 2011 @01:25PM (#2909650)

It seems you didn't read my post at all, because this is a complete non-sequitur. Look at the only sentence in which I emphasized a word and notice that it is exactly the same as the opening sentence your rebuttal.

This tells me that you are operating off of some mental model of what you've heard from FP proponents in the past without actually giving what I said proper consideration. The irony is that in your other comments you decry the religion of such debates with FP proponents, but in this case you are the one bringing a religious view. Nowhere did I say that FP languages are generally superior for real-world problem solving.

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Re:Functional Programming Is Hard, That's Why It's Good by ebiester on Sunday August 21, 2011 @09:57PM (#2910960)

I'm not the one you replied to originally. You're right, it was a non-sequitur, but mostly because it was a question I'd had since I took a functional programming class in college, and never saw an answer that sat well for me. One of the other commenters gave one, so rather than contribute to the noise I just stayed silent and upvoted.

I was just taking advantage of a heated discussion to get an answer. :)

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