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

[Owen Densmore]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> "I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head
>> with a brick."
>
> It is fun!
>
​That's great to hear, too much is NOT fun in programming!​

> If I have a project that isn't FP, I make it into an FP project because it
> is the right thing to do.
>

​OK, so in the JavaScript world, how does one inch forward toward
functional? I don't want to be so functional as some of the extremes.
Curring all the way to one arg functions?

The article says performance may be an issue.

The chief appeal for me is the Self-like objects only, no classes. But the
lack of centrality may just as hard to navigate as the over-tight, stateful
class approach.

   -- Owen​


On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> "I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head
> with a brick."
>
>
> It is fun!
>
>
> "It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very
> human. I mean, who's *boss*?"
>
>
> The caller is the boss.  With FP you know that arguments are all
> read-only.
>
> This gives you unambiguous dataflow and you know when parallelism can be
> done because the arguments just tell you.
>
>
> let c = f(a)
>
>
> ..can run at once with..
>
>
> let d = g(a)
>
>
> ..but not with..
>
>
> let e = h(a,c)
>
>
> Also "=" here isn't assignment, it is equality.
>
>
> If I have a project that isn't FP, I make it into an FP project because it
> is the right thing to do.
>
>
> Marcus
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <
> owen at backspaces.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 11, 2017 10:19:05 AM
> *To:* Wedtech; Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent
> C. Dodds – Medium
>
> ​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:
>   ​​
> https://me
> ​​
> 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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