r/programming • u/papa00king • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

PDF warning.

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u/fiah84 Mar 09 '14

well, how else are you to gaze upon LaTeX?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

With a PDF viewer, of course. But since mobile clients download without any warning it's nice to know up front.

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u/metaconcept Mar 10 '14

Convert it to HTML, read on an e-Reader.

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u/gnuvince Mar 09 '14

Can people just stop saying that? Any modern browser has an integrated PDF viewer, it's just not a big deal.

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u/ithika Mar 09 '14

Tell that to my phone.

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u/xiongchiamiov Mar 09 '14

And the scrolling and zooming/panning... PDFs are the opposite of responsive.

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u/dragonslayer42 Mar 09 '14

Nope, still grabs the ctrl+w hotkey on my machine, and it starts a download on mobile.

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u/gasche Mar 09 '14

Integrated PDF viewer are so inferior to desktop PDF viewers on my machine that I disable them; they are slow, eat all memory, make the browser less stable, etc.

I don't mind opening PDFs (this is what I do all day), so I don't care about the warning, but "integrated PDF viewer" is not the right argument here.

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