The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain

Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by karmakaze on Friday May 02, 2025 @12:38PM (#43872001)

This says more about our programming languages than it does about the brain.

I've always wondered why FP isn't more popular. I concluded it's because most folks don't like thinking like abstract math.

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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by deeThrow94 on Friday May 02, 2025 @12:43PM (#43872062)

I can't speak for other forms of FP, but symbol operators make communicating about haskell very annoying. Outside of that FP seems to be doing fine, IMO.

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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by karmakaze on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:14PM (#43872465)

Try APL, you'll be begging for FP.

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Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming ... by deeThrow94 on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:37PM (#43872700)

To be clear, the symbols themselves don't bother me so much as trying to refer to them in spoken english. I have no particular beef with the use of symbols in code, which can be quite readable.

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