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Ritchie: I liked procedural languages better than functional ones. ChrisMarshallNY: I suspect that he understood functional languages quite well. He just didn
by IncRnd 6y ago
Ritchie: I liked procedural languages better than functional ones.
ChrisMarshallNY: I suspect that he understood functional languages quite well. He just didn't like them.
Your statement doesn't follow from Ritchie's words that you quoted. Preference of A over B does not have the logical consequence that B is disliked. It doesn't even imply that A is intensely liked.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoFair point.
- IncRnd 6y agoI've been researching your point since I read your comment, but I haven't been able to learn if he actually disliked functional languages. Personally, I prefer Haskell or some functional Python at times, since that solves certain problems well. But, we have a lot more computing resources than existed in the past. I guess it could be possible that he enjoyed the functional paradigm, but pragmatically created a procedural language, given the hardware constraints.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoI thought he was talking about Mathematics. It's a functional language. Always has been.
- IncRnd 6y agoFrom that standpoint, C is a functional language. Functions are first class citizens in C. I doubt that is what he was discussing.