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Yeah but to be fair he said you should learn a decent language from all paradigms, things like Smalltalk, Haskell, Prolog, C etc. and not specifically functiona

by anc2020 17y ago

Yeah but to be fair he said you should learn a decent language from all paradigms, things like Smalltalk, Haskell, Prolog, C etc. and not specifically functional programming. He was quite specific about learning Lisp though, probably because of the metaprogramming aspect.

donaq 17y ago
I think it was probably more the functional programming. You can do metaprogramming even in PHP.
- tomjen 17y ago
  You can do meta programming in Assembly too, but it is much more common in Lisp.
- anc2020 17y ago
  Right, but I meant generating code at compile time with macros which take code as a data structure as their input. PHP doesn't have that.