Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables
by dragonwriter on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:07AM
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> Functional programming languages (almost always?) come with the baggage of foreign looking syntax.
That increases the activation energy, I guess, for people who have spent their whole programming life inside the algol-derived syntax set of languages, but that’s a box worth getting out of independently of the value of functional programming.
That increases the activation energy, I guess, for people who have spent their whole programming life inside the algol-derived syntax set of languages, but that’s a box worth getting out of independently of the value of functional programming.