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> Can you tell me more about how my article spurs a feeling of vagueness? Not just you, approx. 90% of the software industry suffers from it (big IMHO here of
by friendly_chap 14y ago
> Can you tell me more about how my article spurs a feeling of vagueness?
Not just you, approx. 90% of the software industry suffers from it (big IMHO here of course).
I think too much emphasis is placed on paradigms and magic approaches, instead of talking about things are.
Something like this:
"Is C++ a big pile of mess?
Yes.
Is Haskell a much better designed language, even if its implementations are slower because the higher level of abstraction clashes with the underlying hardware currently in use?
Yep."
Also, what you are trying to describe with all those top-bottom-left-right and similar analogies is the fact that in FP languages you mostly work with expressions, while the building blocks of imperative languages are statements.
I don't really have the time to continue here maybe I will write a blog post myself too :).