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What utter rubbish. This type of paper has no place in a professional environment.
by iofiiiiiiiii 8y ago
What utter rubbish. This type of paper has no place in a professional environment.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoCould you give some reasons for your statement? Why do you think it's rubbish?
- mcguire 8y agoHe's got a point. 99.999% of programmers are never going to need to know this, and the time wasted reading it would better be spent inventioning a new JavaScript UI framework. /s.
- lbriner 8y agoLike many discussions, this seems to demonstrate that a Programmer != a Developer != an Engineer != an Architect. Of course, many programmers would never need this stuff and many have no formal qualifications but they still produce what they need to without problems. They certainly do not need to know about paradigms vs concepts vs models etc. even if it is interesting. Of course, there ARE people who need to know this stuff to do their job well but they are quite up the food chain compared to most of us. They might also be corporate, who of us sits down and thinks, shall I do this in OO or functional? Which paradigm fits? Most of us know few languages and use what we know.
- macintux 8y agoYou're saying uneducated programmers are more useful than educated ones? I don't understand your point.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI believe that lbriner is saying that uneducated programmers are still useful - not more useful, just useful.
- macintux 8y agoYou realize that the book it's excerpted from is considered one of the more important computer science texts? You're going to have to offer a great deal more useful critique than "utter rubbish" to gain any meaningful agreement here.
- wrycoder 8y agoActually, the chapter is based on CTM, but seems to be from a more recent work. "This chapter is partly based on the book [50], familiarly known as CTM, which gives much more information on many of the paradigms and concepts presented here. But this chapter goes further and presents ideas and paradigms not covered in CTM." I poked around a bit on Van Roy's website, but couldn't find the source. It would be interesting to know what it is.
- macintux 8y agoThanks, didn't notice that.
- norswap 8y agoIt's from here: https://www.amazon.com/New-computational-paradigms-computer-music/dp/275210054X https://www.amazon.com/New-computational-paradigms-computer-... As attested by this: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 and the author's own intervention in these comments.
- gdy 8y agoThis type of comment has no place in a professional environment.