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Functional programming is a ghetto
- pacaro 15y agoI get the point, but the title is obnoxious. At its heart the word "ghetto" has an ineradicable association with discrimination and restriction. Jews in 17th century Venice did not choose to live in the ghetto, they were restricted to it. All current uses of the word still carry that connotation even at several removes. Find a better word, the English language has many to choose from.
- VeejayRampay 15y ago"It’s the under-appreciated intellectual capital of the programming world, in that its ideas (eventually) trickle down into the rest of the industry, but it’s still a ghetto". That kind of smug, holier-than-thou, condescending attitude is the VERY reason why FP is a "ghetto". If this were the 16th century, you'd be a Spanish soldier spreading the holy word of God and "enlightening" the savages, wouldn't you?