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Elixir wouldn't exist without Ruby, so I have nothing but gratitude. My question angles more toward learning functional programming first, and I doubt it'll ev
by rekoros 2y ago
Elixir wouldn't exist without Ruby, so I have nothing but gratitude.
My question angles more toward learning functional programming first, and I doubt it'll ever happen at bootcamps (though - my understanding is that's exactly what happens at Berkeley/MIT with Lisp/Scheme in CS101 (I'd argue with decent results)) - so it's very much a hypothetical.
- ativzzz 2y ago> I'd argue with decent results Is it decent results because of functional programming? Or decent results because those colleges select for the people who generally have the most intellectual aptitude and you could have them write Cobol on tape for CS101 and they'd still be great
- rekoros 2y agoI don’t know, but I doubt that they’re so smart that they’re the only ones who “deserve”, somehow, to be blessed with functional CS101. I heard that it’s a special form of torture, since those CS programs must be hard, but I don’t really buy it.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoWell, it's Open Courseware, so you can find out for yourself if you're so inclined.