Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software
by knaekhoved on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @03:33PM
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Where did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology.
> talking like engineers rather than sales people.
They do talk like this - go to any Haskell conference and it's 90% engineering papers - much better than e.g. a JS conference. It's just that most people don't even know what PL engineering even looks like, let alone how to interpret it.
Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software
by _dain_ on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:53PM
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> Where did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology.
cmon fuckin guy
Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software
by knaekhoved on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:06PM
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Care to elaborate? You literally wrote 3 words
Case in point for the problem with FP communication. When you speak in smug absolutes, it comes off as religion.
I'm pretty big into the FP world. I love Purescript. I dig Idris and exploring dependent types. I spend a lot of time at work teaching "functional" thinking. And yet, I still find most "hard core" FP evangelists insufferable for smugly explaining things as "obviously beneficial." ugh.
That is a lots that sucks about pure FP. It's not all upsides. The FP community can do a lot better at "evangelizing" by talking like engineers rather than sales people.