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I have never seen a manager complain about the use of functional programming. What I have seen is amazingly intelligent programmers with FP backgrounds (who I
by agentgt 11y ago
I have never seen a manager complain about the use of functional programming.
What I have seen is amazingly intelligent programmers with FP backgrounds (who I pushed to hire) try to write in languages that are sort of FP (ie Java and Javascript). They end up writing code that is not canonical (which I don't mind) and using academic/haskell variable names (ie single letter variable names which I do mind heavily) and then fail to write any documentation (anecdotal observations).
I'm not saying this always the case but I have seen it quite a few times.
- boothead 11y agoIsn't that a bit like hiring a sniper and then sending them into battle armed with a nerf gun? ;-)
- jawilson2 11y agoProbably more like sending them in with an AK-47. Each is great at what it does, but you will fail if you assign a person trained with a different weapon to the wrong task, and ask them to use an AK47 like a sniper rifle, or vice versa.
- lmm 11y agoFWIW I have had a manager complain about it.