Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Softwa...
by ogoparootbbo on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:06PM
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Common Lisp isn't exactly functional. At this point python is as functional as Common lisp but you wouldn't call Python functional
Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Softwa...
by rowanG077 on Monday October 24, 2022 @05:13PM
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The World Wide Web runs on JS. Which is a scheme with a C-like syntax bolted on. So I really wouldn't say functional programming accomplishments are poor.
Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Softwa...
by swagasaurus-rex on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:08PM
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React and angular take a reactive functional approach (with side effects called hooks) to UI layout. It’s selectively a great tool to turn a state into a UI
Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Softwa...
by rowanG077 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:01PM
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Is this a bot that triggers?
Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Softwa...
by hanszarkov on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:21PM
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You misunderstood - its the "ratio of people talking" that is poor
I imagine a bizzaro world where Common LISP became a dominant programming language and everybody is resentful about various details CL got wrong and the cool kids are talking about "what a genius Noam Chomsky was", "recursive descent parsers are so cool", "I switched to PHP and became so much more productive", ...