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This is the year of Lisp on the desktop! Or was that Linux goes functional programming? Haskell in the database? Immutable documentdb goes webscale? Javascript
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
This is the year of Lisp on the desktop! Or was that Linux goes functional programming? Haskell in the database? Immutable documentdb goes webscale?
Javascript was an ugly thing on the browser, I do hope that webassembly helps with that, but I highly suspect that webassembly will be for evil programming that is even harder to decipher in compiled-bytecode format.
Alas, the article is riddled with many of the same problems that FP evangelism is usually saddled with, but this time with slightly more colorful fonts.
1) do not say or show the symbol for "lambda".
2) immutable: such a harsh, harsh word.
3) Yup, there's the word "pure". Heil, comrade, happy sharia to you.
4) AHHHH, "higher order". Expanding the consciousness. Take a puff, man.
Well, at least he didn't say anything about monads, functors, or category theory. And there's no implementation of the fibonacci sequence.
- lvass 4y agoReally insightful post, specially if you share with us what is it you've been smoking.