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Functional programming before it was fashionable!

• mabbo 9y ago
  This is how I like to explain functional programming to developers today. When you say "Functional Programming", a lot of devs think "scary complicated thing". When you say "Basic excel spreadsheets" they go "anyone can do that!".
  • fjsolwmv 9y ago
    Excel is a very limited form of functional programming. It's sort of SIMD and it eschews side effects, but it has no first class functions which is extremely frustrated and -non-functional
    • TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
      Perhaps a better term is declarative?