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Re:American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding i... by threeseed on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @07:59AM (#40798938)
Functional programmers ruining cities as well as codebases.
Re:American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding i... by pyrale on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @08:19AM (#40799119)
I had the same questioning reading about haskell in this thread.

And my search tool is so biased by past searchs that it won't tell me what else haskell means.

Re:American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding i... by throwaway2037 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:22AM (#40801071)
You got me. Normally, I downvote these Reddit-type of comments, but this comment just has too much bloody wit. And, I say that with no hate for functional programming concepts.
Re:American Singapore(s): Competent city governance hiding i... by Trexman on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:08PM (#40801551)
>“Functional programmers ruining cities as well as codebases.”

The information [and communication] technology {I.[C.]T.} boom at the beginning of the millenium & especially at the beginning of the 2010s – where you've had banks, investment firms, and angel investors just throwing away their money to anything relating to computing, communications, hardware, and software – had two aims that are publicly known: quantum computing and machine-learning technology (later known as artificial intelligence).

They figured out quantum computing sometime in the ±2015. Machine-learning, A.I., took a bit longer but it's here – confirmed at the beginning of the 2020s.

Now, I.T. has served its original mission and it's relegated to maintenance & routine work for the [already] existing infrastructure.

Self-serving, self-important, self-fulfilling prophecy; who knew!?