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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by collyw on Thursday May 07, 2015 @05:07AM (#9503923)
Yep, Django (or anything equivalent) will give you much more productivity in the real world than any of that functional style.
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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by istvan__ on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:35PM (#9506317)
I guess you were not joking but we are not talking about web development in this thread. How does Django help my embedded kernel development?
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Re:Why functional programming matters (1990) [pdf] by collyw on Friday May 08, 2015 @08:58AM (#9511343)
Ok, sure, but I am sure there are related libraries for that kind of development. When talking about the real world, the majority of it is in web development or business apps.
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