Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Programmer Dave Cheney raised an interesting question today: How will you be programming in a decade? If you look back to a decade ago, you can see some huge shifts in the software industry. This includes the rise of smartphones, ubiquitous cloud infrastructure, and containers. We've also seen an explosion of special-purpose libraries and environments, many with an emphasis on networking and scaling. At the same time, we still have a ton of people writing Java and C and Python. Some programmers have jumped headfirst into new tools like Light Table, while others are still quite happy with Emacs. So, programmers of Slashdot, I ask you: How do you think your work (or play) will change in the next ten years?

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Re:I plan on ossifying

[angel'o'sphere]

until I came across a guy who had come to it from C and was like 'yeah, so basically callback functions with a loose stack implementation
Except that functional programming is much more than that ...

The C++ analogy would be: have a class with overloaded operator(), its "objects" then behave as functions. You can return such functions from ... erm ... functions.

In real functional languages you can compose new functions on the fly and either use them as parameters, or result types or apply them to arguments.

And, for the C crowd: a function is not an address to a piece of code you call, it is more a piece of "data" you allocate with malloc and interpret later. Or in C++: it is a so called "first class citizen" like a class or a struct.