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0 pointsmacintux9y ago0 comments

Haven't read the article yet, but the problem I find with this attitude generally is that the constraints found in FP are what I find valuable, and what are usually missing from languages which support functional approaches.

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seagreen9y ago

Well said. I can write exceedingly low defect code without folds. I can't do so with implicit IO everywhere, ad hoc polymorphism, and dynamic typing.

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0 pointsmacintux9y ago0 comments

Haven't read the article yet, but the problem I find with this attitude generally is that the constraints found in FP are what I find valuable, and what are usually missing from languages which support functional approaches.

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seagreen9y ago

Well said. I can write exceedingly low defect code without folds. I can't do so with implicit IO everywhere, ad hoc polymorphism, and dynamic typing.

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