Re:Functional programming jargon in plain English
by ratww on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:17AM
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It's kinda funny, because you could say exactly the same about object-oriented programming as a discipline.
In functional programming the jargon might be foreign, but they correspond with the math they came from. You also have clear rules and clear situations where you can apply all those things.
In object orientation, however, we have mostly made-up jargon (from patterns and from SOLID), the "rules" for the application of those are completely fuzzy, arbitrary and broken most of the time, and even the categorisation of those is mostly made-up. It's pseudoscientific-mumbo-jumbo compared to Monads and other FP silly-named stuff.
In functional programming the jargon might be foreign, but they correspond with the math they came from. You also have clear rules and clear situations where you can apply all those things.
In object orientation, however, we have mostly made-up jargon (from patterns and from SOLID), the "rules" for the application of those are completely fuzzy, arbitrary and broken most of the time, and even the categorisation of those is mostly made-up. It's pseudoscientific-mumbo-jumbo compared to Monads and other FP silly-named stuff.