Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-09 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 10.12.2016 00:25, qznc wrote: On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 10:25:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 10:01:13 UTC, qznc wrote: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional.html What about python and javascript? Python and Javascript are mixed paradigm languages. You coul

Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-09 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 10:25:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 10:01:13 UTC, qznc wrote: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional.html What about python and javascript? Python and Javascript are mixed paradigm languages. You could argue if purity and immutabilit

Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-09 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 10:01:13 UTC, qznc wrote: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional.html What about python and javascript?

Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-09 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 10:01:13 UTC, qznc wrote: What is your definition of Functional Programming? Mine: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional.html I think, it's more about being declarative.

Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-09 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 December 2016 at 09:58:27 UTC, Kagamin wrote: Functional doesn't imply purity and immutability I disagree. What is your definition of Functional Programming? Mine: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/functional.html

Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-09 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
Functional doesn't imply purity and immutability, and mutable functional has cognitive problems: mutation is important, but functional code is too high level, so whatever happens is hidden from the programmer; D suffers from this too as people are confused whether ranges are taken by value or b

Re: [OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-08 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 December 2016 at 13:40:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/disadvantages-of-purely-functional.html -- Andrei Great Find! Thanks for sharing it. This article expresses in nice words what is wrong with mono-paradigm languages. Performan

[OT] Interesting blog post on disadvantages of the pure functional paradigm

2016-12-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/disadvantages-of-purely-functional.html -- Andrei