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To be clear, I mean that in an empirical sense more than a prescriptive sense. More people use imperative code than functional code, and one hypothesis is that
by wcrichton 9y ago
To be clear, I mean that in an empirical sense more than a prescriptive sense. More people use imperative code than functional code, and one hypothesis is that it's simpler for people to think in terms of instructions. But as I mentioned earlier in the post, that's purely a hypothesis which should be the subject of further research!
- Roboprog 9y agoGood thread here. Good topic for a “multiple kinds of intelligence “ type study. E.g. most of my coworkers prefer itty bitty steps in longish methods (where I feel like the point is lost in the noise) to functional programming style compound expressions where the result/goal is on top and the details nested.