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This says more about our programming languages than it does about the brain.

I've always wondered why FP isn't more popular. I concluded it's because most folks don't like thinking like abstract math.






I can't speak for other forms of FP, but symbol operators make communicating about haskell very annoying. Outside of that FP seems to be doing fine, IMO.

Try APL, you'll be begging for FP.

To be clear, the symbols themselves don't bother me so much as trying to refer to them in spoken english. I have no particular beef with the use of symbols in code, which can be quite readable.



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