[FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!"

Tue Aug 18 12:17:32 EDT 2020

Dave, 

Yes. 

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Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 9:24 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!"

probably because I misunderstand functional programming.

Much more interesting question would be your opinion of using coupling/cohesion typologies as metaphors in realms outside of programming.

davew

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 8:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> I agree completely. But FP also agrees. So it's unclear to me why you 
> think anyone enamored of it would disagree. I think it's fair to say 
> that the whole point of FP is to make focusing on behavior a *safe* 
> thing to do. But to be clear, I'm not enamored with FP. It's a tool 
> like any other, apt in some circumstances, abusive in others. Those 
> who would trade expressiveness for safety deserve neither.
> 
> On 8/17/20 7:36 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> > *[The following sentence is just to annoy glen and jon, who, I 
> > believe, are enamored of functional programming.]*
> > 
> > /Of course, personally, I think all of this is nonsense and that the 
> > only criteria that should be used to decompose complex systems or to 
> > design programming modules, is //_behavior_//./
> > 
> > *[End trolling]*
> 
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