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Programming and Computer Science: an imminent divorce?

4 points| eLobato | 11 years ago |blog.txus.io

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rnovak|11 years ago

learn functional programming, learn Clojure, Elm, Haskell, Idris and whatnot. Introduce a functional programming language into your organization's tech stack

Since when does Functional === Computer Science?

AnimalMuppet|11 years ago

Maybe if the functional types had a bit more understanding of the situations where it's not appropriate, they'd get more traction in the real world in the places where it is appropriate.

tome|11 years ago

Could you elaborate on that?

tome|11 years ago

> impressive levels of abstraction and composition

It's nice to see these two words used to describe the benefits of functional programming. One often hears "expressivity" and it's less clear to me what that means, precisely.