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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by toomanydoubts on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:30AM (#33437464)
I understand that it looks like that, but I believe most of the FP evangelists are just too excited about the cool tech and want to share it with everybody so everybody else can feel the joys of functional programming. At least that's why I often mention and talk about FP to other devs.
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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by jjuel on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:51AM (#33437805)
So like a Christian who just wants you to share the same joys of Jesus Christ that they do correct?
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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by ryanwaggoner on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:06PM (#33438083)
In my experience growing up as an evangelical Christian, the proselytizing has very little to do with wanting strangers to “share the same joys of Jesus Christ”.
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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by andsoitis on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @11:54AM (#33437842)
> so everybody else can feel the joys of functional programming

That is the kind of knowing-better-than-thou that undermines the evangelism.

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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by catiopatio on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:34PM (#33439787)
What if they do actually know better than thou?
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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by dmitriid on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:26PM (#33439608)
I used to program in Erlang. The joy of it doesn't lie in FP. Not even closely.

It's in the runtime, effortless processes etc.

If all you can offer is "joy of programming in FP", you're in a cult.

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