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>figured out that something is obviously beneficial? Case in point for the problem with FP communication. When you speak in smug absolutes, it comes off as rel
by goostavos 4y ago
>figured out that something is obviously beneficial?
Case in point for the problem with FP communication. When you speak in smug absolutes, it comes off as religion.
I'm pretty big into the FP world. I love Purescript. I dig Idris and exploring dependent types. I spend a lot of time at work teaching "functional" thinking. And yet, I still find most "hard core" FP evangelists insufferable for smugly explaining things as "obviously beneficial." ugh.
That is a lots that sucks about pure FP. It's not all upsides. The FP community can do a lot better at "evangelizing" by talking like engineers rather than sales people.
- knaekhoved 4y agoWhere did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology. > talking like engineers rather than sales people. They do talk like this - go to any Haskell conference and it's 90% engineering papers - much better than e.g. a JS conference. It's just that most people don't even know what PL engineering even looks like, let alone how to interpret it.
- _dain_ 4y ago> Where did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology. cmon fuckin guy
- knaekhoved 4y agoCare to elaborate? You literally wrote 3 words