Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy
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It's a wonder the world has managed to survive with the billions of lines of OOP out in the wild, running the world!
The point being, there is nothing special about oops or any other new concept which resembles poorly defined real world semantics. Math, patterns are the masters here. And everything should be amenable to computation ie things like reflection should be part of the language and not treated like a carefully handled baby. As soon as that is met, everything naturally collapses into repeating patterns. And we can apply powerful theorems of math we have accumulated over centuries to the work at hand
Amazingly, this article appears to be serious.
> Declarative code, on the other hand, is too concise, and erroneously makes the developers focus on the less important things, like business logic.
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>It takes at least 20–30 years to get good with OOP, even then most people with 30 years of OOP experience haven’t truly mastered it. The learning path is rough, filled with uncertainty. A lifetime of learning awaits the OOP developer, how exciting is that!
> What about the poor functional programmers? Unfortunately, there’s not much to learn. I personally have taught a few junior developers functional programming in JavaScript, and they became really good at it in about half a year. They simply had to understand a few basic concepts and then learned to apply them pretty quickly. Where’s the thrill of lifetime learning? I wouldn’t envy them.