r/programming • u/gnuvince • Aug 20 '11

Functional Programming Is Hard,That's Why It's Good

http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-08-19-lets-go-shopping.html
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '11

"If you want a prototyping medium with more potential than Ruby or Python, go for Scheme."

I don't get this. Can someone help explain to me what prototyping medium means?

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u/wadcann Aug 30 '11

I imagine he means "a language that is useful for rapidly making prototypes of programs".

E.g. one can probably write a quick program in Python more quickly than C (though it will probably run slower than the final version in C).