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0 pointsnessus4213y ago0 comments

> With first class function, you hardly need class polymorphism. Just pass the function as argument already, don't bother with writing a whole new class just to override one method.

Here, here! After returning to functional programming after a 30 year hiatus, I am beginning to realize just how detrimental the OO orthodoxy has been, and just how impoverished the world has been without first class functions. If only Scheme had caught on in the mainstream when it was invented, the programming world would be a much happier and safer place.

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lutusp13y ago· 2 in thread

> Here, here!

Where, where? ITYM "Hear! Hear!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear

"Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him, hear him. It represents a listener's agreement with the point being made by a speaker."

nessus42OP13y ago

Yes, I know, but it's not nice to mess with the lysdexics.

lutusp13y ago

:) I would have let it go, but a lot of young people read HN and I didn't want them to think the expression really was "Here! Here!" Once these things get started ...

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