[FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

[Marcus Daniels]

"I conceptually like the ideas behind it, but it takes immutability to more of an extreme than I feel is necessary (e.g. unless you use its software transactional memory constructs, there is no way to re-bind a local variable)."


In Haskell, if this is needed, one uses the State Monad.


https://wiki.haskell.org/State_Monad

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

Interesting timing. Although I don't do much software development these days, I've been fiddling around with Clojure off and on for the last few years. I conceptually like the ideas behind it, but it takes immutability to more of an extreme than I feel is necessary (e.g. unless you use its software transactional memory constructs, there is no way to re-bind a local variable). Also, the programming environment with the most advanced support for it is emacs, and I haven't drank enough koolaid to grok it fully. So, just last night I decided to download Racket (a scheme dialect with a nice simple IDE). So far, I have been having a blast with it. Part of the reason I downloaded it is that I wanted to run programs from the book "The Little Schemer", which among other things is a crash course on replacing iterating and mutating of data structures with purely functional recursive solutions.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net<mailto:owen at backspaces.net>> wrote:
​I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick.

But this article does a nice job of showing how functional programming is very Self-like:
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dium.com/@kentcdodds/classes-complexity-and-functional-programming-a8dd86903747<http://dium.com/@kentcdodds/classes-complexity-and-functional-programming-a8dd86903747>

​It's objects and functions all the way down, and for me the best is no `this`.

It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very human. I mean, who's *boss*?

Do any of us *use* functional programming?

   -- Owen​


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