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FTA: FP says that you don't have to have 20 thousand libraries. Or rather, you're welcome to have as many libraries as you want, but you develop those 30-70 fun
by gasull 16y ago
FTA: FP says that you don't have to have 20 thousand libraries. Or rather, you're welcome to have as many libraries as you want, but you develop those 30-70 functions that you use most often in your job and re-use them Instead of learning a new problem domain for each project and then working inside of it little piece by little piece, you're creating you own minimal set of symbols that work on all of your projects, thereby making each new project more and more trivial.
Would anybody mind making a non-comprehensive list of these 30-70 functions?
I know the article says they're specific for each job, but I'm sure there's an overlap among most of them.
- alnayyir 16y agoThe attitude of spinning your own mini environment to solve a variety of problems using the exclusive set of idioms known best to you reeks of what has plagued Forth and C++. I love functional programming, but I don't think this animosity towards using known, tested libraries is all that healthy.