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I often wonder, if LOGO, which was inspired by Lisp became more popular than BASIC whether functional programming would have become popular earlier. Many Gen X
by keithnz 5y ago
I often wonder, if LOGO, which was inspired by Lisp became more popular than BASIC whether functional programming would have become popular earlier. Many Gen X kids like me were exposed to both, but basic was more broadly avaialbe and often was the OS of your computer, But LOGO was really good for its time and it made it simple to structure your program around functions and build upon functions in a semi lispy/schemey way. It instantly change the way I thought about programming and often attempted to replicate that method of programming in basic.
- ABeeSea 5y agoI don’t think so. Most programming is CRUD which is by its very nature impure. Trying to make it pure just adds a lot of overhead and baggage. I do think the stateless paradigm that serverless cloud has created is a step in the right direction. Most AWS lambdas are by their very nature impure though since you have to send the output somewhere at the final stage of the lambda.
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