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Does anybody else notice and question the lack of functional programming on that list?
by ken47 11y ago
Does anybody else notice and question the lack of functional programming on that list?
- endymi0n 11y agoLearn other Programming Languages: [...] Lisp and Scheme. Apart from that, there's probably a reason no top 100 company uses a purely functional language as their foundation.
- MichaelGG 11y agoIt's Google. They're notorious for using... less than advanced languages, to put it nicely. (C++, Java, Python, Go) Obviously it works for them. But just imagine if the founders had been more inclined to a LISP or an ML.
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- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoWe'd still be using yahoo?
- spopejoy 11y agoBig time. It's especially depressing given their huge focus on "object oriented programming," given the 1000s of travesties birthed in its name on an hourly basis in BigCos of the world. 1) Even if you don't code FP in your day job, your sanity and code will benefit permanently from a strong grounding in it. 2) Nothing beats getting paid to code FP.