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No functional programming is just something people pretend to like to make themselves feel smarter than others. Notice there are no libraries for functional la

• thenduks 17y ago
  Right, so, any two things that get you from A to B are identical? Unix isn't more powerful than Windows; You can outrun a cop-car in your Prius; Apple pie is apple pie? There's a lot more that goes into doing a job than just the physical possibility. In the context of programming there's maintainability, developer time spent and a million other factors. The blub argument, specifically the part about 'looking up', is quite literally talking about you.
  • p6 17y ago
    Look man, all Im saying is what language you should use is matter of personal preference. If you prefer Windows to Unix or vice versa more power to you. Dont make people feel inferior just because you like one tool better than what they use.
    • thenduks 17y ago
      The only thing I would make someone feel inferior for is using a tool that's wrong for the job just because of 'personal preference'. I write Ruby and JavaScript as easily 99% of my work, does that mean I never pick up Erlang or Scala or even C? Of course not, to do that out of stubbornness or some perceived loyalty to my platform would make me a very poor programmer indeed. Besides, that's not what you're saying. Your comment was pretty well flat out saying functional programming is useless and people only do it to look smart. That, clearly, is a load of crap.
      • p6 17y ago
        I never said functional programming was useless. I said there were a lot of posers, thats all. If they weren't posers they'd spend the time building libraries - for example there would be a Lisp on Rails.