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Clank75 t1_iy75u9m wrote

Oh no, is it that time again?

The functional programming fad comes round every decade or so, each time a new generation of developers enthusiastic about writing code but not yet old enough to think about actually maintaining it comes along. It was the wonders of ML in my day...

I thought we'd just excited the Scala fad though. Surely it's too soon for a new one?

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PoorlyAttired t1_iy78vo8 wrote

We did functional programming in uni in the 90's. Was niche then. Powerful for some things but unintuitive. Probably no different now.

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chowderbags t1_iy8tb4n wrote

Yeah. I've got a similar memory from a programming languages class in my old college days in the late 00's.

And sure, there's some more built in functional type stuff in imperative languages nowadays, and I'm plenty happy to much about with it for a couple of elegant lines of code. But too much of that is just a mess to try to think about.

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