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GeneralRe: Your software is never perfect Pin
BillWoodruff29-May-16 21:56
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NewsFunctional Programming does a horrible job of selling itself Pin
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GeneralRe: Functional Programming does a horrible job of selling itself Pin
Marc Clifton31-May-16 5:53
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FP does a horrible job selling itself because:
  1. The world is not immutable
  2. Tail recursion is a thing only necessary when coerced into an immutable world, and can get really complicated really fast
  3. Continuations and continuation passing style are hardly ever necessary (and easily implemented in non-FP languages)
  4. Pattern matching is just a glorified switch statement
  5. Type inference sorta sucks, especially when only the first field of a type is used to infer the type (that one bit me numerous times.)
Marc
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NewsMicrosoft removes 260-character path length limit in Windows 10 Redstone Pin
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