“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)

Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by spdionis on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:37AM (#9757804)

Your way of thinking is not really helping though. The goal is to minimize the amount of mistake, not eliminate them (because it is impossible).

You can either think that everything is broken or nothing is broken, or you can try to make everything the least broken possible.

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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by reitanqild on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:43AM (#9757838)

> Your way of thinking is not really helping though.

RyanZAG does not think that way, just tries to point out that the premise of the article seems broken.

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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by laumars on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:02AM (#9757950)

His point was you cannot fix against bad programmers. While I'm sure we'd all agree that it's preferable that languages enable developers by throwing up the least amount of hidden traps, at some point we need to stop blaming our tools like the proverbial bad workman.

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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by hawleyal on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:55AM (#9757911)

The article is proposing these points.

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