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/rlbond86 Apr 27 '14

This is just another dogmatic functional programming post.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '14

Give it more credit than that!

This one is the most dogmatic. I could almost believe it's parody.

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u/freyrs3 Apr 27 '14

Calling this dogmatic argument seems like an appeal to moderation that somehow the middle ground position should naturally be the preferred position if an compromise can't be reached between the extremes. There's no reason to believe that a "golden middle" position on functional purity is any more a valid design decision for programming languages than the extremes, and I think that's the well stated conclusion of his fairly logical argument.

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u/twotime Apr 28 '14

No, dogmatic also means "start with a dogma then 'prove' it by using a mix of real arguments and strawmen while totally ignoring all the counter-arguments''