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He never said functional programmers weren't morons, he just said they were "more smart."
by mruts 7y ago
He 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