in reply to Re: pissed off about functional programming
in thread pissed off about functional programming
Is FP a "Silver bullet"? No, but it's a tremendous one to have in your arsenal. As Alan Kay once put it: "Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
My only feedback for the OP is that I'm generally more interested in the flavors of FP than I am in FP for its own sake. If you've ever tried to build concurrent programs in C or Java, it's reasonably clear in some FP languages why things are the way they are. For instance, there are some other things worth mentioning w/r/t Clojure regarding referential transparency and the nature of values. Hash array mapped tries, the STM, concurrency primitives, persistent data structures, the ability to ignore things like lock order acquisition, and so on are also probably worth mentioning.
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