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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

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296 points gyre007 | 1 comments | 17 Oct 19 10:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pbreit ◴[17 Oct 19 23:31 UTC] No.21287304[source]▶
To this newbie, procedural is ===SO=== much easier to understand.
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iLemming ◴[18 Oct 19 04:09 UTC] No.21288597[source]▶
Actually it's the other way around. For someone who is not exposed to programming at all, it is much easier to pick up a language like Clojure. This is not merely my opinion - I have seen it multiple times, with different people.

Julie Moronuki who never had any exposure to programming at all and has a degree in linguistics decided to learn Haskell as her first programming language, just as an experiment. Not only she did manage to learn Haskell and become an expert, she co-authored one of the best selling Haskell books. I remember her saying that after Haskell other (more traditional) languages looked extremely confusing and weird to her.

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1. alisiddiq ◴[18 Oct 19 09:22 UTC] No.21289841[source]▶
I only had experience of coding in Matlab in university, and started learning Clojure in my first job. It was very intuitive.