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>the original python looks cherry picked My dude. I have yet to see an FP article that is not just badly cherry picked anecdotes, where the cherry picking its
by wredue 3y ago
>the original python looks cherry picked
My dude. I have yet to see an FP article that is not just badly cherry picked anecdotes, where the cherry picking itself is often somewhere between a misrepresentation and a blatant lie (nobody would ever do <that> but you can if you need to)
It’s one of the reasons I strong advocate against functional programming. The community representation of it is, at best, highly misrepresentative of reality.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoRegardless of how you feel it gets represented by various communities, it is a powerful form of programming. I'm not a functional expert, I have only dabbled. I once rewrote a fairly complex imperative Python text processing program in a functional style. It became much clearer. Most of the code was actually reusable higher order functions, and the program logic became very short and essentially declarative.
- infecto 3y agoDo you have any good recommendations on introductory readings?
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoNo, I'm afraid not. I did this years ago. I'm sure there are good resources online somewhere.