Re:Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
by dnautics on Saturday November 13, 2021 @11:35AM
(#29211005)
I started a poll on twitter. Now, obviously there is bias since my twitter audience is mostly FP people, but keep in mind:
- almost all experienced FP people "started in OO", or at least, imperative. So if they are picking map/reduce it is out of experience with the alternative.
- the split between bootcampers/informal and CS/formal is instructive: You can see that "bootcampers", who typically have less need for a low-level mental model of what the metal is doing, find that that for/while loops are harder on the brain than map/reduce:
- almost all experienced FP people "started in OO", or at least, imperative. So if they are picking map/reduce it is out of experience with the alternative.
- the split between bootcampers/informal and CS/formal is instructive: You can see that "bootcampers", who typically have less need for a low-level mental model of what the metal is doing, find that that for/while loops are harder on the brain than map/reduce:
https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1459348334007787526?s=20