> It has done more to turn people off of functional programming that just about anything.
The only thing worse in my book is FP evangelists. FP has some cool ideas and is an interestingly different way to do things compared with imperative programming, but enough exposure to the “FP is obviously the best paradigm and anybody who isn’t a fanatic is clearly just unenlightened” crowd will sour anybody on it.
The only thing worse in my book is FP evangelists. FP has some cool ideas and is an interestingly different way to do things compared with imperative programming, but enough exposure to the “FP is obviously the best paradigm and anybody who isn’t a fanatic is clearly just unenlightened” crowd will sour anybody on it.