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It seems like a major legacy of practical experience with FP in the 200x and 201x years is going to be result types.
by solidsnack9000 8y ago
It seems like a major legacy of practical experience with FP in the 200x and 201x years is going to be result types.
- nine_k 8y agoAlso, the idea of mapping and folding, which is now everywhere, and is not limited to traditional collections. (Likely applicatives will take another decade to go mainstream.)
- solidsnack9000 8y agoThe 4th generic added to Go will be our memorial. Erring[ResultType]
- javier2 8y agoWouldn't that be the day. The funny part is how they preached 'errors are values', and instead of giving a good error monad, they implement a poor version of it explicitly where they feel like it.
- lmm 8y agoEvery decade mainstream programming culture finally picks up one feature from ML.
- solidsnack9000 8y agoTechnology is spreading much more quickly than training so it makes sense. ISWIM was written up in the fifties.