On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 3:08:08 PM UTC-6, Jan Mercl wrote: > > > Isn't it strange, that we, programmers, well used to model the problem > once in term of CPU registers and raw memory, then in a pure functional > style >
I don't know that purely functional actually exists: I have been trying to crack this problem for ages: what exactly is pure functional? As soon as a functional program has state (a println/print/puts statement is the first warning), it is no longer purely functional IMO.. But, it's a little off topic for this list... still, some functional programming techniques exist in all programming languages, so still on topic to some extent. As for comparing programming to driving on the road: Okay but programming is and extremely creative effort, sort of like writing a novel with mathematics in it. The argument is that you take away people's creativity, with tools like GoFmt, in the same way forcing a super creative person to write a poem a certain way, or forcing someone to use a certain style of mathematics in a paper (which, could be a good thing depending on the case - but if it is a really creative looney mathematician, you will want him to write like a wild stallion, free as can be and let him create his masterpiece) Still I like GoFmt - always provide a contrarian position -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
