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That was embarrassing to read. I can program decently in Scala and a bit in Elixir and I'm a goddamn moron...
by overkalix 7y ago
That was embarrassing to read. I can program decently in Scala and a bit in Elixir and I'm a goddamn moron...
- mruts 7y agoHe never said functional programmers weren't morons, he just said they were "more smart."
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoEven if it’s true (I don’t claim it is) because FP’s brick-wall learning curve is a huge filter - given that FP isn’t widely used in SE (and you don’t need to learn FP to make lots of money doing SE) - the people spending time to learn FP will be doing it for esoteric-appeal or intellectual curiosity - which can be argued is a better indicator of general intelligence - the same way that people who know and write OCaml, COBOL, Ada and Erlang today are probably very smart.
- tome 7y agoThis is basically Paul Graham's argument in "The Python Paradox". http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html