undefined | Better HN

0 pointsrit16y ago0 comments

Python has some FP features. More importantly, it's incredibly easy to learn, available on just about every platform (JVM users and .Net users can use it, Mac, Linux, Windows, etc).

0 comments

3 comments · 2 top-level

stcredzero16y ago· 1 in thread

Python has some FP features. More importantly, it's incredibly easy to learn, available on just about every platform (JVM users and .Net users can use it, Mac, Linux, Windows, etc).

Yes, but having "some FP features" is a far cry from being able to use FP to do lots of reasoning about your program.

ritOP16y ago

It's not intended to be a complex statistical model. It's intended to replace XML Files that may have included calculations, with a system that allows people to plug their assumptions into the program and get an answer, rather than parsing XML and turning that into a program.

My understanding is that the type of calculations they're talking about, if you need complex Functional Programming you're doing it wrong.

mkramlich16y ago

agreed, plus by my understanding it is also already fairly popular in the financial programming community.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse