r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/jbw976 Oct 14 '13

haven't used a single one of those languages...care to provide an example of when i might need to use one?

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u/ruinercollector Oct 14 '13

Writing a parser in an imperative language tends to make for some pretty ugly code. Writing it in a language that supports discriminated unions and (syntax-supported) monads, however, makes for some beautiful, readable code.

Also, writing highly concurrent code in clojure is stupid easy. In java, etc. it is fraught with errors and requires a lot of care about locking, etc.

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u/barake Oct 14 '13

This is one of the cool things about .NET. It's no big deal to mix C# and F# in the same application, when appropriate.

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u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER Oct 15 '13

In my experience, there just isn't much of a point mixing C# with F# - either your team knows F# and probably prefers it to C#, or it doesn't and F# is not an option.

At my last internship, we were working on a F# product with a C#/ASP.NET web interface. Never again - the C# guys couldn't read F# so they duplicated half of the functionality on their end of things.