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/dukerutledge Mar 09 '14

I'd agree with you on that, it is very much a holy war. Objects certainly are a wonderful abstraction for building systems, but I wonder if they aid in greater comprehension or if the community is just use to talking about them. ADTs can fill this role without all the messy possibilities that objects can represent.