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Education is a big part of the problem. When I attended university, we weren't even told that functional programming exists. Only later on, through one of my fr
by wereHamster 14y ago
Education is a big part of the problem. When I attended university, we weren't even told that functional programming exists. Only later on, through one of my friends it was brought to my attention. And it's hard to change that mindset, particularly at the university I was. They are set to produce a constant stream of Java/.NET developers for the companies around them (large banks, in particular).
- PommeDeTerre 14y agoWhich university was this, and which program?
- wereHamster 14y agoThe university in Lucerne, Switzerland. Hence the reference to large banks ;)
- James_Duval 14y agoIs this common? I'm taking the "Introduction To Programming Languages" at Coursera and we're using SML straight out of the gate. It's really fun and totally different from the Java and before that the basic AS/JS I experimented with. Do universities not tend to offer these types of courses? Is this an advantage of the free courses (relatively unpopular or obscure languages being taught for learning's sake) which paid courses can't or won't offer?