Why do CS colleges teach Functional programming if nobody uses it in the real world?
Why do CS colleges teach Functional programming if nobody uses it in the real world?
Jonathan Stewart
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Charles Brooks
same reason they only teach you the syntax and you learn 90% of coding on your job
Christopher Jones
same reason why colleges teach gender "science":
to fuck your brain
Oliver Sullivan
>nobody uses it in the real world?
You found the point of all colleges, congratulations.
Jose Moore
Learning how to write code without side effects will help you write better code in imperative languages. Side effects are an easy way to introduce bugs into your codebase. People should know what FP is about, and they should learn a lisp even if they end up never using it.
Jayden James
>lisps have anything to do with fp
durrrrrr
Chase Richardson
spotted the code monkey
Tyler Young
Most lisps aren't languages that enforce purity, and they have their own things that are important to learn (like metaprogramming). The fact that lisps were a step towards FP is irrelevant here, their contribution to that can be separated from their great syntax that enables for things impossible in other languages.
Jackson Reed
It's absolutely valuable to learn a Lisp, but the suggestion that it has anything to do with learning FP is a joke.
Jeremiah Gray
why do functional programming even exist when object-oriented ones are clearly superior
Jason Hall
spotted the neet
FP is widely used in javascript
Michael Cruz
you dont need to learn a useless language to know how to write a pure function
Nolan Mitchell
I haven't suggested it, the point was that learning both these things is important if you want to git gud.
Andrew Cooper
it teaches you critical thinking skills :)
Josiah Hughes
Object oriented programming is a subset of functional programming. In fp, objects are called closures.
Jackson James
This. You need to understand functional as a stepping-stone to learn OO.
Camden Smith
I work for an oil and gas company.
We use Scala a lot for new development.
Core, "business critical" stuff is still Java, but smaller things are Scala and now some Kotlin.
Easton Stewart
Grayson Rodriguez
Functional programming is used heavily in the industry. They're often used oop languages, but if you say you don't know what a lambda is, you're a fucking retard.
Jordan Sanders
>2018
>still falling for the tech job meme
I feel sorry for you nerds. If your not in healthcare now days god help you.
Jordan Peterson
Because it's "science" not "engineering"
Julian Howard
To weed out brainlets