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jimrandomh comments on Course recommendations for Friendliness researchers - Less Wrong Discussion

62 Post author: Louie 09 January 2013 02:33PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 11 January 2013 01:57:04AM 0 points [-]

What criticism of functional programming?

The grandparent comment (and my other comment in the thread) said nothing whatsoever about whether functional programming is good or bad. I only said that it was bad to present it as ideology - as opposed to, say, teaching in SML and leaving the whole functional/imperative thing unremarked.