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scerruti
9y ago
Yes, my son is currently writing a lot of functional code and complaining when I force him to do something in Java. It bothers me that we see the verbosity of Java as a detriment and then say we should add comments to functional languages.
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scerruti
9y ago
I am old. I grew up in an age of cryptic Fortran and worse C code that absolutely required comments to be intelligible. I currently teach two different courses that have opposite philosophies behind comments, AP Computer Science Principles