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Seems there's a lot of hate for Scala and Haskell regardless of the project? What is it with functional?
by mnd999 6y ago
Seems there's a lot of hate for Scala and Haskell regardless of the project? What is it with functional?
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoScala and Haskell are also in the most loved languages, why do you think there's a lot of hate for them?
- erik_seaberg 6y agoI think some people feel productive writing lots of code, while others feel productive learning ways to avoid writing lots of code.
- shadowgovt 6y agoI've never seen someone succeed at giving an objective explanation. Anecdotally and subjectively, functional programming is a different type of thinking about a problem... Instead of breaking it down into stages, I'm almost breaking it down into a graph and figuring out how the nodes must connect. LISP is also like this. I wouldn't be surprised if cognitive modeling shows that graph-manipulation engages different chunks of one's brain than step-by-step procedural description, but I do not know.
- microtherion 6y agoThere might be a particularly strong Green/Brown delineation with those, with programmers loving to write code in them, but disliking to maintain other people's code.