Functional programming isn't the answer

[Kent Sharkey]

John A De Goes[^]:

Functional programming has enjoyed a surge in recent years. You can see in the proliferation of books and conferences, in the rapid growth of languages like Scala and Clojure, and in the very public conversions

Doesn't that depend on the question?

[Jon McKee]

They have a point but it's still funny that the bad functional example uses imperative-style code :laugh:

[trønderen]

Like when predicate languages such as Prolog was the big thing: If you didn't understand some code, 99 of 100 Prolog experts would resort to explaining the Prolog interpreter's algorithmic, sequential processing of the statements.