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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by jjav on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @06:23PM (#33443729)
> How do you distinguish between people who are in a religious fervor and people who have figured out that something is obviously beneficial?

Seems easy to me.

If it's obviously benefitial, show me:

- Performance benchmarks showing how much faster the compiled code runs

- Case studies demonstrating faster development and/or fewer time spent debugging

- Studies showing consistently better maintainability

If it is lacking this data, it comes across as religious fervor.

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Re:Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software by knaekhoved on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:16PM (#33444197)
If you believe in the epistemic power of "studies" to convey useful information in these domains, I have bad news for you - you are the one in a religious fervor.

The only semi-objective metric you've proposed is compiled code performance, which is a fairly small component of most people's utility function, especially when the difference disappears in all but numerical-computation-centric applications.

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