"I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick."
It is fun! "It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very human. I mean, who's *boss*?" The caller is the boss. With FP you know that arguments are all read-only. This gives you unambiguous dataflow and you know when parallelism can be done because the arguments just tell you. let c = f(a) ..can run at once with.. let d = g(a) ..but not with.. let e = h(a,c) Also "=" here isn't assignment, it is equality. If I have a project that isn't FP, I make it into an FP project because it is the right thing to do. Marcus ________________________________ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 10:19:05 AM To: Wedtech; Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick. But this article does a nice job of showing how functional programming is very Self-like: https://me dium.com/@kentcdodds/classes-complexity-and-functional-programming-a8dd86903747<http://dium.com/@kentcdodds/classes-complexity-and-functional-programming-a8dd86903747> It's objects and functions all the way down, and for me the best is no `this`. It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very human. I mean, who's *boss*? Do any of us *use* functional programming? -- Owen
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