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Kent Sharkey wrote: Functional programming is not popular because it is weird
That's quite insensitive.
Functional programs have feelings. Haskell is probably crying somewhere right now. 
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raddevus wrote: Functional programs have feelings
Have you ever tried it?
Functional languages will take your feelings and crush them.
Seriously, it'll leave you battered and bleeding and crying like a little baby.
Of course when you get past that point it can make for some nice and clean code 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Have you ever tried it?
Functional languages will take your feelings and crush them.
Seriously, it'll leave you battered and bleeding and crying like a little baby.
Of course when you get past that point it can make for some nice and clean code
Your message has been marked for moderation since it actually makes sense.
We're not trying to make good points here. We are trying to slam functional programming.
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No, it has less popularity because it applies to fewer situations. But when it does... 
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Some programmers prefer to use Rust, others go for Java but at the end of the day, both programming languages have highs and lows. Always pick the one that sounds like decay (but then again, it never sleeps)
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You ever notice the only place that Rust is ever mentioned is in these Insider News bits?
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Pretty much 
Someone must be using it? Maybe? 
TTFN - Kent
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"Although Java’s GC is very optimized and makes programming rather painless, Rust has a zero-sized runtime, for some large values of zero. There is a runtime, but it consists of establishing landing pads for panics which can even be overridden." I find that a right strange passle o' mixed metaphors; I sure would like to have some zeroes with large values, though.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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That is a rather corroded sentence.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Quote: In short, Java can benefit from profile-based optimizations which (in theory) allow better performance than compile-time optimized code for certain workloads.
That's pretty well the first time I've heard anyone claim that a JIT-compiled language, even "in theory" should be as fast as an ahead-of-time compiled language. It just allows the JIT-compiled language to approach the speed of ahead-of-time compiled languages.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Low-cost DROWN attack decrypts data in hours, works against TLS e-mail servers, too. "But right now I'm drowning, drowning in the sea of love"
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You know, maybe plain ol' http isn't such a bad idea, given all the effort to attack https. Http is probably not even on the radar anymore.
Marc
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We in the software development community like to think we’re special: that building software is uniquely difficult. "There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program."
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A judge in New York ruled Monday in favor of Apple in a case where investigators wanted the court to compel the company to unlock a seized iPhone 5S running iOS 7, which the company does have the ability to unlock. "Locks are on doors only to keep honest people honest."
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Now Apple got a new market share!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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According to a new survey, 55 percent of app developers earn around $1,000 a month with just a minor 4 percent racking up around $100,000 a month. Supply and demand?
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Although the C and C++ languages have diverged, the C++ Standard Library incorporates most of the C99 library by reference. Backward compatibility is the sqrt of all evil
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Over the years, there have been any number of popular metaphors that help people radically misunderstand the realities of software development. Writing software is like making Play-Doh snakes
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Except the snakes are alive, venomous and really bad tempered.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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The particles known as quarks were suggested as a way of making sense of a large collection of particles that kept popping out of our atom smashers. I like the strawberry-flavoured quarks the best
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A Google autonomous vehicle struck a bus in California on Valentine’s Day, according to an incident report published by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Monday. Someone's going to get demerits on their software license
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Meh! Sounds like the bus deserved it! 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I guess it's so much harder for a robot to predict that a human would do something stupid, whereas humans know a human will do something stupid.
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Before they have autonomous cars in Maryland, they have to design computers that can jump out after a crash and run away from the scene.
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