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Every ten years it's discovered that another idea PL researchers have been harping on about about for forty years is very nice and practical once people get use
by Twey 3y ago
Every ten years it's discovered that another idea PL researchers have been harping on about about for forty years is very nice and practical once people get used to it :)
I remember when anonymous functions (indeed, first-class functions at all) were considered academic nonsense that just obfuscated problems. After all, who can keep track of all that complexity of functions calling functions?
- lelanthran 3y ago> I remember when anonymous functions (indeed, first-class functions at all) were considered academic nonsense that just obfuscated problems. I've been programming since the mid-90s. I've used both Lisp and Haskell. I don't ever remember even crusty old C greybeards considering anonymous functions to be academic nonsense.
- Twey 3y agoI've honestly had people say this to me within the last year!