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?
Clank75 t1_iy75u9m wrote
Reply to Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development by fchung
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?