Functional programming is just a subset of OO programming.
In exactly the same sense, OO programming is a subset of functional programming. An object is nothing more than a tuple of functions each of which has a hidden parameter.
But then, you seem to think that C++ is an OO language, which makes me wonder if you actually understand Modern C++ (in the Alexandrescu sense) at all.
Yet C is still in wide use, and is still useful for endless applications. Its bastard offspring C++ is another "fractal of bad design," but it's everywhere.
I used to make the same complaint about C++ until I seriously used it for something.
There's nothing wrong with pissing on Javascript, but it's unfair to mention it in the same breath as PHP. PHP sucks across the board, but Javascript has very specific and identifiable flaws. You can think of Javascript as the living embodiment of Sturgeon's Revelation.
So, for example, Javascript has quite clean variable semantics (borrowed from Scheme, no less!), making it almost a functional language, but then drapes it in an unwieldy function syntax which discourages you from using it as such. Somewhere inside Javascript you can tell that there's a pretty nice scripting language trying desperately to get out. (Hell, membranes are almost elegant.)
I wish that PHP had redeeming features like that. The only thing it ever had going for it was that 15 years ago it had a better Apache binding than any other language, making it the superior choice to CGI.
Other people have mentioned price as a factor. For me, that's the ONLY factor. It needs to be cheap enough that if it turns out to be useless, it didn't inconvenience me.
I wouldn't mind a smart watch just for mucking around with and seeing what hacks I could do with it. But I can't justify the expense of buying one on a whim.
Kind of, yes. Say what you will about iPads, but for the typical adult, they don't even pretend to be anything more than a combined filofax/newspaper that you can also play Angry Birds on.
Surface Pro does almost deliver on the promise of the mobile office. (And yes, by "almost", I mean "not".)
But its unix underneath, the 2560x1600 resolution is excellent. The keyboard is acceptable.
MBAs are also extremely light. They have the highest power-to-weight ratio of any laptop.
I can write and compile code on it as if it were linux.
Oooh, so close. Clang is very close to GCC, but lldb is so far away from gdb that it's not even close to "as if it were linux". Plus, some of the packages on macports or homebrew are behind Debian.
Yeah nothing says someone is stupid than having more money than sense.
FTFY
(For the record, I don't think all classes of Apple users are stupid. The MacBook Air has the highest power-to-weight ratio of any machine that runs Unix, so it's a rational choice for many people. No, I don't own one.)
But there's also a LOT of role-confusion and conflicting signals about what we're supposed to do about it.
It doesn't help that nerds are more confused than most about social cues, on the whole.
The MRA movement also has a few damn good, highly valid points - but they're expressing them in pretty toxic and unhelpful ways.
They do? I've never seen any good or valid point within a several-mile radius of the MRA movement, and certainly not its online wing.
Oh, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of damn good and highly valid points that a sane group dedicated to "men's rights" could be making. There's no shortage of issues in the world that disproportionately affect men adversely (child custody, prison rape, conscription... I'm sure I don't need to go on). I've just never seen any of it it even hinted at by the MRA movement.
I made one comment elsewhere that I'm going to repeat here: The slogan of the Good Men Project is "the conversation no one else is having". Sadly, that appears to be accurate.
This is the flip side of the military-industrial complex. Wasting money in pointless wars results in a crapload of military surplus gear. Savvy cash-strapped police departments are buying them, using bullshit excuses about safety (which everyone knows are bullshit, but who's going to argue with officer safety) when what they're actually doing is using taxpayer money wisely.
Say what you will about "pop fluff", but it was people like Madonna and Michael Jackson who made it okay to listen to pop. (And if you listen to 70s pop, you'll see why.)
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Functional programming is just a subset of OO programming.
In exactly the same sense, OO programming is a subset of functional programming. An object is nothing more than a tuple of functions each of which has a hidden parameter.
But then, you seem to think that C++ is an OO language, which makes me wonder if you actually understand Modern C++ (in the Alexandrescu sense) at all.
To be fair, also bitter about pre-ANSI C++ and people who say "C/C++" as if it's a thing, which is understandable.
I've yet to meet a Framework that makes things as clean and usable as they claim.
Webmachine with OTP.
Javascript. [...] concurrency
Hahaha! Oh, man! Hahahahaha! That is hilarious.
Javascript's idea of "concurrency" is a less convenient version of single-threaded code.
I have a nice recipe for braised rabbit in a capsicum sauce. Delicious!
Yet C is still in wide use, and is still useful for endless applications. Its bastard offspring C++ is another "fractal of bad design," but it's everywhere.
I used to make the same complaint about C++ until I seriously used it for something.
hiphop/hack might not be pure PHP but if you're a PHP programmer, you can figure out and pick up hiphop and/or hack.
Which just goes to show that there's hope for PHP programmers yet.
Don't piss on Javascript.
There's nothing wrong with pissing on Javascript, but it's unfair to mention it in the same breath as PHP. PHP sucks across the board, but Javascript has very specific and identifiable flaws. You can think of Javascript as the living embodiment of Sturgeon's Revelation.
So, for example, Javascript has quite clean variable semantics (borrowed from Scheme, no less!), making it almost a functional language, but then drapes it in an unwieldy function syntax which discourages you from using it as such. Somewhere inside Javascript you can tell that there's a pretty nice scripting language trying desperately to get out. (Hell, membranes are almost elegant.)
I wish that PHP had redeeming features like that. The only thing it ever had going for it was that 15 years ago it had a better Apache binding than any other language, making it the superior choice to CGI.
Perl.
Well if that's your criteria, write everything in Haskell.
It was Polybius, right?
I punched those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face.
Most significant C++ projects are done in Visual Studio or Xcode.
Other people have mentioned price as a factor. For me, that's the ONLY factor. It needs to be cheap enough that if it turns out to be useless, it didn't inconvenience me.
I wouldn't mind a smart watch just for mucking around with and seeing what hacks I could do with it. But I can't justify the expense of buying one on a whim.
I thought it was a multi-purpose scripting language, not a big hug.
Speak for yourself. Surely it's better at hugging than scripting.
'Cause THAT'S what people do with tablets...
Kind of, yes. Say what you will about iPads, but for the typical adult, they don't even pretend to be anything more than a combined filofax/newspaper that you can also play Angry Birds on.
Surface Pro does almost deliver on the promise of the mobile office. (And yes, by "almost", I mean "not".)
Yes, but these ones are detachable on purpose.
MBAs are also extremely light. They have the highest power-to-weight ratio of any laptop.
Oooh, so close. Clang is very close to GCC, but lldb is so far away from gdb that it's not even close to "as if it were linux". Plus, some of the packages on macports or homebrew are behind Debian.
FTFY
(For the record, I don't think all classes of Apple users are stupid. The MacBook Air has the highest power-to-weight ratio of any machine that runs Unix, so it's a rational choice for many people. No, I don't own one.)
It doesn't help that nerds are more confused than most about social cues, on the whole.
They do? I've never seen any good or valid point within a several-mile radius of the MRA movement, and certainly not its online wing.
Oh, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of damn good and highly valid points that a sane group dedicated to "men's rights" could be making. There's no shortage of issues in the world that disproportionately affect men adversely (child custody, prison rape, conscription... I'm sure I don't need to go on). I've just never seen any of it it even hinted at by the MRA movement.
I made one comment elsewhere that I'm going to repeat here: The slogan of the Good Men Project is "the conversation no one else is having". Sadly, that appears to be accurate.
Hell, what we need is more MRAPs. It'd solve the parking problem overnight.
If I had mod points, you would have them all.
This is the flip side of the military-industrial complex. Wasting money in pointless wars results in a crapload of military surplus gear. Savvy cash-strapped police departments are buying them, using bullshit excuses about safety (which everyone knows are bullshit, but who's going to argue with officer safety) when what they're actually doing is using taxpayer money wisely.
Say what you will about "pop fluff", but it was people like Madonna and Michael Jackson who made it okay to listen to pop. (And if you listen to 70s pop, you'll see why.)
I know of at least three comedians who had essentially the same idea independently about 15 years ago.
Mooooomuwahahahahaha! Moo! Moo! HahahahahaMOOOO! Why is a raven like a writing-desk? MOOOOO!