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FYI: I have a computer science degree. I never learned any functional programming, nor lambda calculus during university. I learned about both topics in my la
by throwaway2037 2y ago
FYI: I have a computer science degree. I never learned any functional programming, nor lambda calculus during university. I learned about both topics in my late 30s as a professional.
- 3836293648 2y agoYour school should lose its accreditation. Your programme is an absolute failure and sounds like they called their software engineering programme computer science
- pmarreck 2y agoI find this insane, considering how important I find it now. Honestly, I didn't take enough CS to get into functional langs, but I did learn what a lambda was. The importance of it all came later, after years of struggling with bugs in million-line codebases that wouldn't have even existed in an immutable, functional language without inheritance.