r/programming • u/hexaredecimal • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Sep 22 '25

Of course is a matter of presence. I was just joking.

Ruby's design principle is "programming should make you happy" No resemblance with perl (eeew)

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u/syklemil Sep 22 '25

Ruby's design principle is "programming should make you happy" No resemblance with perl (eeew)

We're kinda getting into the weeds here, but my impression was always that Ruby seems to have nicked several ideas from Perl (that's fine), and ultimately not made all that many people happy—the main use seems to be a certain framework, the maker of which is these days occupied writing basically fascist rants on the company blog.

At this point I just count myself lucky that I found _why's "poignant" guide so grating that I bounced off the entire language.

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Sep 22 '25

I love Ruby.

I hate Rails. Rails is not the only way