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Not all experienced programmers become functional acolytes. See: Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth. They like procedural programming and prefer to model programs with
by trealira 2y ago
Not all experienced programmers become functional acolytes. See: Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth. They like procedural programming and prefer to model programs with imperative, mutable state, rather than pure functions that map one type to another.
- desumeku 2y agoNeither is Richard Stallman.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoRichard Stallman is known more for his clarity of thinking about individual freedom and its likely abridgements that can arise as a result of using commercial software, than his chops as a coder. I could be mistaken, though.
- JohnFen 2y agoTrue. For my part, I'm genuinely impartial about this. Functional programming is fine by me, and so is procedural, object oriented, etc. They each have their own set of advantages and disadvantages.