hi Bishwendu, javascript is first-and-foremost a tool designed for web-product-development, a growing field that has eclipsed low-level general-purpose programming (where jobs are harder and harder to find) in the IT industry.
you need to give compelling reasons (for such significant language-change) why i, a web-developer would benefit from from having overloaded-functions in my (mostly expendable-code) web-projects, as opposed to creating confusion and maintennance-headaches, when i typically have to rewrite code multiple-times during the web-integration process. kai zhu kaizhu...@gmail.com > On 17 Oct 2018, at 12:23 PM, bishwendu kundu <bishwenduk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I have been a great fan of the evolution of JavaScript in the recent past. > The language is steadily closing the gap to ideal functional paradigm. One of > the things that I have liked the most about languages like > Erlang/Elixir/Haskell is their ability to define functions with same name and > different airty. The decision of invoking the correct function-argument > pattern is dependent on the invocation of the function. Implicit pattern > matching in aforementioned languages helps avoid costly cognitive loads > introduced by explicit if/else based pattern of logic flow branching. > > The greatest power of the pattern matching which amazed me was, dropping the > whole of looping construct, altogether. Elixir/Erlang have no LOOPS. Stack > based recursive calls combined with JavaScript's closures suddenly strikes me > as a very powerful programming model that not only increases readability of > code but also promotes immutability of the data structures in use. The loops > would continue to exist but more modern codes can be written leveraging the > recursive model of JavaScript. > > With de-structuring of arrays & objects already in place in JavaScript, > pattern-matching of functions can fit right in perfectly, thereby taking > JavaScript another step closer to ideal functional programming model. > > Looking forward to your response. > > Thanks & Regards, > Bishwendu. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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