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I strongly disagree with procedural code being easier to read and particularly easier to reason about. I haven't run into many (any) problems in the last few y

by cgag 13y ago

I strongly disagree with procedural code being easier to read and particularly easier to reason about. I haven't run into many (any) problems in the last few years that I thought functional programming didn't bring a lot of value. The code-as-data is kind of an orthogonal issue, most functional languages aren't homoiconic. Edit: also Clojure isn't pure.

jbooth 13y ago
That's fine, you're just in a tiny minority. Code-as-data is actually a win that you can't get from procedural languages, which is why I brought it up. It makes solutions to complex configuration spaces possible that aren't even conceivable in procedural languages. Everything else is just syntax.