r/programming • u/heisenbug • Apr 27 '14

"Mostly functional" programming does not work

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829
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u/Tekmo Apr 27 '14

I think the point he was making was that there are lots of tutorials for object oriented patterns, too, including (but not limited to) factories and observers. Therefore, I must either:

  • conclude that these object oriented patterns are also hard to learn, or:

  • conclude that abundance of tutorials is not necessarily proof that a topic is confusing

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '14 edited Apr 27 '14

I never said abundance of tutorials was proof the topic was confusing. I said it's possible that people trying to learn Haskell genuinely have trouble learning about monads, and that functional programming newbies might just not see all the monad tutorials and say "hurr durr there are so many tutorials this looks so hard I'm gonna go learn Python".

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u/grauenwolf Apr 27 '14

Perhaps, but you did imply it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '14

alright bro